Recent Stories

• A few minor annoyances
  Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
  Just a thing or three buggin’ me… | Read more

• The whistlin’ farmer and me
  Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009
  This is a true Halloween story, circa 1995. | Read more

• Degrading ritual is rarer, but still with us
  Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009
  Have you ever been hazed? | Read more

• Two fools… one arrogant, the other cruel
  Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009
  I read two stories on the same page of a newspaper about these two characters within an hour after I sent in my most recent column; had I read about them a few hours earlier, this column would have been written two weeks ago instead. | Read more

• My, how the time goes by…
  Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009
  “Keeps me searchin’ and I’m growing old.” | Read more

• The perils of packaging
  Saturday, July 25, 2009
  The cry goes up, way too often around our house. | Read more

• No age limit on anger and hatred
  Saturday, June 13, 2009
  Two recent fatal shooting incidents which have made the national news and involve ‘lone wolves’ absolutely convinced in the rightness of their ‘causes’ made me think back to something that took place in Texas about six weeks after I graduated from high school in 1966. | Read more

• Learning to write--a waste of time now?
  Saturday, May 30, 2009
  I had no idea this was the case these days, and I don’t know if this philosophy has taken hold here in Thumb area schools, but apparently the teaching of cursive handwriting is going the way of the dinosaur. | Read more

• Proper spelling is becoming a lost art
  Saturday, May 16, 2009
  This part is tricky, but please read on...) | Read more

• Why is he still on the road?
  Saturday, May 2, 2009
  The next column of mine to appear in this space will be somewhat experimental, and I hope you will find it interesting and amusing as well. | Read more