you are not alone

    “Open up, this is a raid….” In between my first and second years of college, I had a job driving a beer cart on a country club golf course in Marietta, GA. Marietta is a suburb of Atlanta. … Continue reading

elephant

I’d like to think that we had anything figured out at this late date, but it looks like it’s just more of the same in some ways. But a birthday celebration is to be celebrated…and today is Martin Luther King, … Continue reading

new porch rooster

We’re down to one rooster now. Something ate one of the chickens when they were all in the relative safety of the coop, and I guess they all stopped trusting the efficacy of the sanctuary. The chickens flew the coop. … Continue reading

mail jeep rave

I check new music out of the library sometimes. Actually, I check a lot of music out of the library. It’s a lot cheaper than even looking through the cutout bins for new music.  It’s about as cheap as it … Continue reading

you’re not an artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuzFNtki60 I watched this video this morning and I thought, for a moment, “How strange….we do love to pigeonhole people….listen to this guy…..” “….and he’s not even a singer!” And he’s not even a singer. He’s singing….it sounds pretty good…it … Continue reading

I have a backpack, too….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDW_eWj3Vig Usually, when someone tells you, “The house is great….but the access is really bad” it means that it might be a little rough to get up to the house. The road might have some potholes…strange grading…needs some gravel. There … Continue reading

GPS and the Push

When it’s 2 in the morning already, and you’re laboring to make it to the destination that the new GPS unit you bought before the trip told you an hour ago is 30 miles of driving away, and all you … Continue reading

two treadmills

I was thinking about children yesterday. We have a new baby. I was thinking about how children change your life. When we had our first child, we were a young married couple. Actually, Jenny was younger than me then by … Continue reading

the static frame

Mondays are hard for me sometimes. I have to go back to work after a short weekend of not going to work. That is what makes Mondays hard for me. (It’s at this point that you might think that there … Continue reading

weary travellers

I don’t get a lot of time off from my job. Even when I was only working for the Post Office part-time as a substitute driver, it was awkward to get big chunks of my life open to do important … Continue reading