About Stene’s Stories

What

Stories. You’ll find them in this website, including:

• DIY projects – stories, some for fun, some hopefully helpful.
• DIY remodeling – the history of the house that refuses to be finished.
• Photo stories – lots of pictures. Not many words.
• Running writer – advice and thoughts on writing and being a writer.
• School bus driving – the funny and touching side of what happens on your kid’s school bus.
• Woof – complex subjects explained by two dogs. You’ll see.
• Family – john’s letters to flora

Who

My last name is Stene (pronounced steen.)  I have written for newspapers, magazines, and video production. I made excellent money (for a writer) from writing that few (well, most likely not many people that you know) have heard of – Hydrogen Sulfide Standard Operating Procedure, Crane Operations, Hazmat Response. This standard operating procedure list goes on, and on.

I’ve also had this life-long obsession with figuring out how to do things all by myself. I once had a plan to “borrow” a small airplane and take a DIY flight lesson.

I didn’t need a flight instructor because? Because I had read and re-read a how-to-fly library book. I had practiced the motions while sitting in a living room chair.  I had a bicycle.  There was an uncontrolled airport about seven miles away. I was 12. Thankfully a bit of laziness struck just in time. The picture is from a semi-legal flight a number of years later.

How, When and Where

To see answers to the last three of journalism’s who, how, what, when, where questions, check some of this stuff out.. Let me know if anything tickles your fancy, or strikes a nerve (grrr).