“So, do you think you can live with driving only 55 miles an hour from now on?” Dad asked. “I guess so,” I answered, “Why?” “Soon it’s gonna be the new law of the land.” “You mean no more going 60 or 65?” “Nope.” “Don’t get it. Why?” “It’ll save gas and we won’t have…

“You don’t look too good, kiddo.” “I’ll be okay.” “Lemme feel your forehead. Exactly what I thought – you have a fever. Get undressed and climb back in bed. I’m gonna get the thermometer.” “Not the butt one!” “No, — not the butt one — the one you put under your tongue.” “Mom still uses…

“So, if you’re made in the image of God,” the Sunday-school teacher asked, “And God is a thousand points of light, what are you?” The lengthy silence was broken when a little girl in the back of the class shouted, “A lighthouse!”

For days now, I have had a cold. Still and without complaint, I get up and do what needs done. Today, it was mowing the back yard. I say WAS, because I practically choked-to-death on the cough drop I’d taken to prevent me from hacking till I could not breathe. God is laughing at me,…

Passing shower, lightening, thunder, Drench far-off balded nobs of granite, Followed by unforgiving slanting sun, Setting hills on fire with shining gloss. In short-order, those same bare nobs, Where rain evaporates before it puddles Those lifted hills will forget halos glow Burning a deep gray, brown and yellow. Dry wind and dust, oppressive land, Littered…

The paramedic instructor asked, “What is the difference between the male and the female reproductive organs?”  The only one to raise a hand, she called on me and I answered, “It’s a vas deferens.” She didn’t get it — forcing me to explain the joke to her snickering class.

The person who refuses to get up extra-early to lay around all day — is simply too lazy to enjoy it.

Eighty-eight had been a hard year for the family; their patriarch had died working in the junkyard he’d inherited from his father earlier in the century. And as the will was read, the younger of his two son’s announced he wanted nothing to do with the ‘family business,’ preferring to be bought out so he…

This flower is smaller than the eraser end of a No.2 pencil, proving that sometimes one has to get down on their hands and knees to find beauty in an otherwise barren landscape.

His eyes roved about the room, moving from person to person before fastening onto her. He then put his arm around her, but she asked him to remove it and he did so immediately. And while he lost his head, lacked brains and had no guts, she consentingly gave her heart to him. In doing…