• Had a bad mix up at the grocery store this morning after the clerk said, “Strip down, facing me.” Evidently she was talking about my debit card.

  • Dusking Hour

    “Go outside and play, but be home for supper,” Mom said as she dismissed us to go do what children do. We went into the woods, played games we invented, climbed trees, enjoyed hide-and-seek and kick-the-can. We disputed, negotiated, settled. Always, and way too soon, the street lights popped, buzzed and brightened that dreaded dusking…

  • My friend said he didn’t understand cloning and I told him, “That makes two of us.”

  • My wife is shopping. She sent me a picture of her in a pair of nice dress pants. She asked if I thought they made her behind look big. I returned her message saying, “Noo!” Autocorrect changed it to, “Moo!” Send help, quick!

  • Matthew 22:36-40, Reimagined

    When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they  gathered. One of them, an expert in the law, tested Jesus by asking, “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” Jesus answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This…

  • Adam’s Tree Fort

    We were playing in the woods, where Adam claimed to have a tree fort. I wanted to see it, but he refused to show me. So, once Adam left, I searched until I found his well-camouflaged platform. I finally found my way up and sat down. When Adam returned, he cried, “Get out of my…

  • Grit is getting up, dusting off and being prepared to get rolled in the dirt again.

  • Video may have killed the radio star, but reality TV killed the video star.

  • Honoring El Paso’s Dead

    Less than four days following the attack on innocent lives and the murder of 22 people and the wounding of another 24, I found myself walking into our local Walmart before 5 am. On my hip, as usual, I sported my pistol. Soon I was approached by a young man who asked me to please…

  • Tragedies will happen with firearms and genocide without them.