About Me
About me
My name is David Charles Clubb. I am a caregiver to the Elderly and I've been writing short stories since 2016. I've published them on my personal Facebook page and family and friends have liked them, so I am migrating them to this blogsite. Thinking there were only about fifty stories that I’d publish, I soon realized that there are over two hundred stories and counting.
My brother Jonathan and I grew up in The South living among a family of preachers. Our Dad was a Presbyterian minister. Our Pepaw was a fire and brimstone preacher in the Wesleyan-Methodist church of Western North Carolina and our 2nd great grandfather was a circuit riding preacher who rode a horse through the the mountains of North Carolina preaching the Gospel and helping communities start churches of their own. The story goes that it was several dozen, but Dad has only documented about eighteen.
Our mother taught English and Music to kids in the communities we lived in. She also taught us how to keep a house so that we could take care of ourselves in case we never married. Ha!
We have lived in six different homes in three different Southern states before we were in middle school.
Over the years Dad has had part time and full time churches as well as several businesses he's owned and operated on the side.
Mom and Dad are now embarking on their 22nd move since they were married over 57 years ago.
After high school, I struggled with college and quit after seven years of learning and worked full time the final five of those years.
I had decided to go into the retail clothing industry and worked for several different stores and retailers, a manufacturer and did some buying along the way. After about 17 years at it, I decided to change careers and figure out what I was going to be when I grew up.
My wife Sarah and I had met in Greensboro, where I went to school, while working for a fancy clothing store. She was from Marion, Ohio and the family we worked for was from Ohio too. The husband was a nephew of Woody Hayes, the famous football coach of The Ohio State University located in Columbus, Ohio. So I learned all about Buckeye football before I'd even set foot in the state.
Sarah and I visited her sister Susan and brother-in-law Erick in Bexley, Ohio, which is a suburb of Columbus, and only four miles from campus.
On one of our visits to Bexley, we attended the Fourth of July parade. It was a life changing day in our lives. It was such a moving experience, full of kids on bikes, high school alumni tossing candy to the watchers and bands and classic cars. It was something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. We decided on our walk back to the house that afternoon to move to Bexley after we married. We got married in 1994 and moved to Columbus in 1995.
Bexley became our home too in 1998. We raised our two daughters here and still love it even after they went off to college. it's tree lined streets, sidewalks and safe neighborhoods drew us here along with their fabulous school system. The high school is consistently ranked in the top five high schools in Ohio. The population is made up middle class, upper middle class families as well as some titans of industry in Ohio. The governor's mansion sits about three blocks from our house.
I began classes to work in the healthcare field on the day before September 11, 2001. I worked as an orderly/aide in several nursing homes and a hospital before starting my own home care agency. I took on a partner and we expanded our business to include several other related businesses.
We sold them a few years later and my business partner died from a heart attack at a young age. I rebooted the original company that I'd started and went back to caring for members of our Greatest Generation on my own.
My sister in law Susan died in 2017 after a ten year battle with breast cancer. Her story writing on her Caringbridge page inspired me to start writing as well.
After posting a few stories over a few years, my really family and friends pushed me to write more. They seemed to enjoy them and liked my writing.
So here we go. Keep following my blog and we'll see where it takes us.
BTW, most if not all of the photos on this blog are mine that I personally took and therefore are copywritten. If they’re not my own photos, I mention who they belong to or what site I found them from. I claim no credit of ownership for those.
Please email me any questions or comments you have as long as they're positive. If you see a typo, let me know. My mother, the English teacher, normally catches them for me commenting on my social media page. I’ve told her not to, and my style of writing is more “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story Mom!” I write for fun, enjoyable entertainment and to get these life stories out of my head and written down somewhere.
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