I’m putting up a chain-link fence to keep mosquitoes out of my yard while wearing a face-mask to keep myself safe from viruses.

You know it’s the truth when Facebook blocks it, Twitter deletes it, and YouTube bans it.

Where does a story come from? Went to the store. Bought a bag of dog food. Came home. Saw a picture of a friend’s new tiny puppy ‘Poco Diablo,’ a supposedly messy little terror…and Voilà!  “I didn’t take you literally, when you said, ‘it takes a village.’ I thought you meant everyone pitching in to…

Only he knew what he had done. Marcus released the deadly virus into the environment accidentally. He spent the next three-years working on a way to rectify his mistake. Nothing Marcus found had any effect on the continuing pandemic he’d caused. Finally, he began to think beyond ‘flattening the curve.’ Instead, Marcus started working on…

We must hang together or hang separately…as long as we remain six-feet apart.

Some days seem longer than others, especially the nights. This, for me, comes after I’ve laid down and cannot fall asleep. Sometimes I get back up and knock about until the insomnia passes. Other times I lay in bed, tossing and turning. Neither are comfortable at the time, because of the lack of rest for…

She knew that her husband, though still very young of heart, was physically incapable of maintaining the family ranch. So she did much of the work herself as he watched from their kitchen window. Neighbors came to help during branding season and again come birthing time. And she let him offer up advice and as…

We were standing on the sidewalk, casually observing social distancing rules, and talking as we waited for the Number 17 bus to the south of town. Though I’d never seen her before, the subject of collecting came up between us and I told the raven-haired beauty with red lips, that I did a lot of…

Amazing how law enforcement officers are so willing to enforce wearing masks while in public, but won’t enforce pulling up one’s pants while in public.

And lastly…one can always count on current events to drum up some fresh mental hell… This apocalypse came with varying names: COVID-19, Corona Virus, the China flu, the Wuhan flu, the Bat flu. Whatever it had been called, there were very few people left to apply any given label. Everywhere Tom looked, there were dead…