Regular Life

Maybe I’ve been writing too much lately. Although I’m a fairly avid blogger, we really are social, I swear. We had friends over Friday night, I went out with a buddy Saturday afternoon, and then we went out with another set of friends Saturday night. Now, Sunday, on the other hand. Well, that was the [...]

If you can’t see past differences enough to help an Imperial stormtrooper, then how kind are you, really?
I mentioned on this blog the first fan convention I’ve ever attended. It was the Dallas Comic Con, and the main attraction for me was one of the celebrity Q&A sessions. Adam Baldwin, one of the stars of [...]

It’s possible I started Saturday by making an offensive remark.
I got up with Ben, played and read books with him, made him some scrambled eggs and toast (for me, too). Nothing unusual. We do that a lot on weekend mornings while his mother sleeps in a little bit. Somehow we never squeeze in a day [...]

I changed my blog theme. There was something about Dusk that I just didn’t quite like. I still think I don’t have enough contrast between the text and the background, but I can adjust that later.
You, dear reader, should not notice much change in functionality. I tried to make the transition as simple as possible.
One [...]

Pic of the Week

What’s wrong with this clock puzzle?
RV There Yet?
The in-laws were on their way here Monday in their large RV. They were going to stop and spend the evening with a friend about 40 miles short of our house, and come park in our driveway Tuesday evening. Then, on to San Antonio Friday [...]

Foreword
In the year before I wrote this story, I had been writing stories wherein I set my friends in the future. My best buddy had a hovercraft that we crashed, and I was married to some girl I had met in summer camp. My brother was a successful rock guitarist, and I was a respected [...]

As they say here in Texas (and pretty much all of the American south), I’m fixin’ to post some old writings. I’ll lay my soul bare, and resist editing. As difficult as it might be, I won’t even remove exclamation points from the end of narrative sentences. That would be dishonest!
In a way, I’m doing [...]

I looked everywhere for it. I looked in the place I had kept it for at least 20 years, but found only a few scattered bits, a veritable “worst of” collection. As many times as we’ve moved, it was a wonder any of it had survived intact, but I hadn’t yet found anything worth saving.
Then, [...]

I recently read an article about a man whose Doberman, which had been through obedience school, attacked and viciously bit his wife as she lay in bed. The veterinarian told him that many Dobermans do not come back once they have crossed that line. His was one of those, the vet suspected, so he took [...]

Picture of the Week
I finally hooked my film scanner up again after almost two years of collecting dust. My test scan worked, so you get a picture of me standing on my head in one of my favorite spots.
I took my lovely wife to this spot once, and she was a trooper. It’s a 5.6-mile [...]