Guess I scared a child today while at the hardware store. The boy, wearing a mask,  was in the cart his mother was pushing when he looked at her and said, “That old man looks weird without a mask.” Embarrassed, his masked mother shushed the kid and then apologized to me. I smiled and said,…

It was a trip to the home improvement store that I didn’t want to make, but had to as I am changing out the light fixtures in our guest bathroom. After spending less than half an hour gathering what I needed, I proceeded to the cash resister. As I’m standing in line, a properly masked…

It was a pink wall, a simple, plain, pink wall. On it a single spot, a dark brown stain from where I was sitting. As I sat there staring at it, I wanted terribly to get up, go over to it and clean it from the wall. It was such a perfect wall — and…

Shhh! Let’s not tell them not to inject disinfectants into their bodies. Let’s give Darwin’s theory a chance to work.

Return to the river, freedom of a forest, when but a child. What we need now that time long ago without a social media. That one time before we were all grown-up, forced to become old, waiting for our death. What we are now.

Mackenzie listened attentively to her Grandpa Zeb’s scary story, this one complete with shadow puppets. Then, sooner than she liked, it was time for bed where she found it hard to fall asleep. Abruptly, a small inky figure scurried through her bedroom, along the far wall, illuminated by the full moon’s glow. Mackenzie screamed with…

For those whose weddings have been canceled due to COVID-19, God has given you a second chance to reconsider.

All the world has become Las Vegas. Everyone’s losing money, it’s acceptable to drink at all hours and no one has any idea what time of day it is.

The one thing I never thought I would hear somebody say to me, “I like your mask!” I wasn’t wearing one.

Being a trophy-husband is so effing exhausting!