I'll Beat You to the Corner

By Chuck Hubbell

Now is the time to reflect and remember a different time and place. We are taken back to a time of black and white television. It was a time of The Adventures of Superman and Howdy Doody. It was a time of cartoons and science fiction moving from the silver screen to a small screen. This story delves into the reality of life after a disease. Two

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chuck Hubbell
• Release date: Sep 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781956161199

Chuck Hubbell

Some people think they can put on a red suit and a fake beard and become a Santa. It is kind of like thinking that one can drive a NASCAR because they travel fast on the freeway. Based in Southwest Pennsylvania,Chuck Hubbell has been a Professional Santa Claus for seven years. He strives to use all of his communication and marketing skills to become the best Santa that he is capable of being. He has attended the St. Nicholas Institute to become an even better Santa. He retired from a careers in retail management and sales as an insurance Professional. Because he is not willing to rest on past accomplishments and defeats. He currently manages an Art Gallery and Learning Center during the off season. He lives with his second wife. Combined they have four Children and seven Grandchildren and two dogs a Border Collie and a Cocker Spaniel.

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I’ll Beat You to the Corner

Copyright © 2021 by Chuck Hubbell

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978-1-956161-21-2 (Hardcover)

978-1-956161-20-5 (Paperback)

978-1-956161-19-9 (eBook)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

The Past that Happened Today

Building Cities

School Days

The Box Babysitter

Boys Will Be Boys

Art Class

A Change in the Air

The Prolonged Change

High Anxiety

Dougie’s Mother at School

The Monsters Are Here! Run!

The Final Race

The Horse Is Out of the Barn

Marching for Dimes

Rotary, Mom and Dougie

My Epiphany

Dougie Is Alive

INTRODUCTION

It is a marvelous wonder of our very creation, and at the very same time, it is extremely interesting how a smell, song, photo, or vision can trigger several deeply buried memories.

In the book, The Holographic Universe, the author, Michael Talbot, talked about his journey to find where the brain stores our memory. Among other things, his quest involved the pursuit of learning exactly how we can see a photo of someone that we haven’t seen in forty years and still know immediately who it is in the photo.

The same is true with our other senses. Perhaps, Psalm 139 really tells it exactly the way God intended for it to be for all to learn:"For