No, I’m not Santa Claus, although I am a jolly little fat man. And I used to dress up and play Santa for the kids at the women’s shelter I was involved with years ago. But I’m talking about a different kind of list. Quite a few readers have asked me how I keep track […]
I apologize for not posting a blog yesterday, but as I said, it was a long, busy day and time just got away from me. When we left Go Daddy and switched to a new host for the blog a while back, our e-mail was still with Go Daddy. About three months ago I received […]
Don’t let the title of today’s blog fool you. I didn’t run a 7K marathon or do any other kind of running yesterday. Trust me, if you ever see me running, you had better run, too, because there’s something really big and mean behind me! But I did have kind of a marathon writing day, […]
In an online conversation yesterday, somebody asked if anyone had ever heard of a rich guy who had a newspaper column and was famous for letting people write to him asking for money and then giving it to them. I replied that not only had I heard of him, I knew that man. Born in […]
My folks never had a lot of money, but even when I was a kid it always impressed me that no matter how little we had, anytime a friend, or a neighbor, or a relative, or even a total stranger needed something, my parents were always right there for them. That’s just the kind of […]
What has happened to the world? Have we all become a population of total wimps? Every day I end my blog with a thought for the day. Yesterday’s was “You can tell a lot about a woman from her hands. For instance, if they are wrapped tightly around your throat, she’s probably upset about something.” […]
Today is a very special day for myself and Miss Terry. It’s our eighteenth wedding anniversary, and we still feel (and often act) like newlyweds. This was not the first marriage for either of us, and believe me, it was not something that either one of us was looking for, or even expected to happen. […]