Those were the salad days....

for a couple years I managed a shoe department at a Steinmart in Lincoln, NE. This job had alot of benefits. Because I worked for the shoe company that rented the space from Steinmart, I had no supervision. It was a boring job, the store was slow(it ended up closing down), but as long as no one complained about me or my lovely staff of high school girls, I was able to often use my time quite creatively. Perhaps you are asking yourself.."OK, what does that have to do with books and the reading of them?" Well, I am getting to that. What that meant for me most days was that I stood at my shoe department counter, and I read. some times I read a book a day. I read a book called The Devil and Sonny Liston,(a book that I will review here on Boomer's Booklist) which rekindled my love of Ali, so then I read every Ali biography the Lincoln public library had. I read a book on girl's high school basketball on a Crow reservation. I read several books on Elvis Presley, I was mostly into non-fiction then. I read so much stuff, I can't even remember all the stuff I read. All I know if for 2 years I was making $10 an hour to read. That was pretty sweet.