Suprise Me

Did that woman know how her simple act of kindness turned our entire situation around? Read More

How and why my [grand]mother was cooking on a ranch in Montana in the summer of 1918 is one of the stories I shall never know... Read More

All seemed very normal in this town, as long as you stayed in your lane. Read More

My conclusion from this is that we, or many of us, write for the satisfaction of having our words survive the birth canal, and be launched into the stream of time. Read More

As the family upgraded to newer, better cars, it got so I could drive the older one almost exclusively even though I wasn’t technically the owner. A two-tone green Cadillac that was old but didn’t exactly qualify as a beater became known as The Green Hornet. What a tank. It was like a couple of… Read More

When I graduated high school in 1974, I was a bit of an arrogant little shit. Read More

Despite the title, from a song I love, for me there is no such thing as being too long at the fair! Read More

It started with a boom ... it continues with a global pandemic ... Read More

My brother Larry is a real jerk, but he has really good manners. Whenever he spends time at a friend’s house, his friend’s mother calls to tell our mother how polite he is, and she has to announce it to the whole family. Personally, I think he’s just like Eddie Haskell. Last night on Leave… Read More

As a child, we wouldn’t do anything resembling Christmas decorations, but, for some reason, I always had a nice, new straw hat for spring. You might even call it an Easter bonnet. We didn’t celebrate Easter, of course. I remember one such hat was navy blue with an up-turned brim and a velvet ribbon band… Read More