Regular Life

There was lots of matriculation, mastication, and dang near car bustation.
To start the long weekend, we attended a high school graduation Friday night in a church sanctuary that holds 3,500 people. While it definitely was not filled to capacity, I was surprised at how many showed up for a graduating class of 92. Shannon and [...]

A co-worker returned from the doctor and announced, “I have strep.”
We all knew what she meant, but my question (which I did not ask) was, “Really? Strep ear? Strep foot?”
Sometimes abbreviating a term or a phrase can be funny, and sometimes it can be aggravating. I can’t stand it when someone about to leave says, [...]

First, thanks to U.S. Veterans past, present, and future. For my wife’s family, it’s a time to gather for their annual reunion. We’re here and having a good time. One family member is a Vietnam Veteran who volunteered for additional tours on the front lines, but nobody mentions his military service. Maybe I will thank [...]

As much as he likes to throw it, Ben loves to kick his blue ball. To paraphrase a great quote from I can’t remember where, “his methods are unorthodoxed.” He walks right up to the ball, puts his foot against it, and then thrusts his foot forward. The ball rolls, and he likes it.
I notice, [...]

I have heard folks in other countries accuse the United States of doing everything big to the point of excess. While I think it’s very difficult to form a fair opinion of a country until one has lived in it (and maybe even lived all your life in it), I can understand how at first [...]

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Shannon’s eyes are no better. At her three-week checkup, the doc’s office told her to hang tight until the next surgery, which they say must wait four months from the date of the original procedure. That means she gets to have all this done again and start recovery fresh [...]

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Potty Pooper
I’m about to be indelicate. This topic pretty much requires me to be gross, so I ask forgiveness now.
Saturday, we were going to a birthday party scheduled to start at 3 p.m. Taking Ben to such an event without his having a nap would have been reckless, [...]

(NOTE: If you wish to continue reading “Wall,” then you’re in luck. I posted the next installment over at A Storied Man. It is not quite finished yet, but I think we’re getting close.)
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In a belated note about Mother’s Day, I have this to say: people who live about 30 miles north of Dallas must [...]

For those reading “Wall,” thanks, and hang in there. Although I’ve hammered out 1200 words so far for the next entry, I decided to wait until late Sunday night to post it and whatever I’ve added. If I always had time to write 1500 words a day, then I either would not have a job, [...]

Stivins never set out to implicate someone else in a murder he committed. On that count, however he was two for three. Another man very nearly was convicted for Denise’s death, but investigators never found her body. With neither that nor an eyewitness to foul play, prosecutors had to let the man go free.
He had [...]