What would the world be like without kids. My granddaughters keep me invigorated. The oldest was playing make words with some game containing twelve dice with letters on each side. I don’t think that was the intent, but what are you going to tell a five year old. I was running [...]
Watching, we all like to do it. Some like to sit in the store and observe people. Others prefer the privacy of their homes aka, looking at some poor fool on the tube. Then there are the daring lookie-loo-loos who love to pull over, chase or otherwise be in the thick of [...]
We said “goodbye” to a dear saint this past weekend. Another soldier was called home. She didn’t look like one, her lithe frame was barely able to carry a typical weight of 88 lbs. Time gradually won as it does with all of us and after a week’s stay in the hospital, [...]
I took my hat and laid it next to my trophies. The month was June and I was by myself. This was before my Drs. decided I needed to watch my weight (what do they know)? The sun had been up for about four hours, there was a cool breeze easing across [...]
I had completed my morning duties and hurried home because the wife had not enjoyed her diet coke for the day. Actually we all know it will be the first of many. My conversation goes something like this.
“Honey, have you been tanked up yet today?”
“No, and I’m dying.”
A couple hours later, “Honey, could [...]