Regular Life

I took this picture about two years ago near our home in Missouri.
For fun, I made it into a desktop wallpaper for 1024×768 and 800×600 resolutions. It won’t quite fill your desktop vertically, but please, choose Center, not Stretch when choosing the position.
Quite a while before I shot this pic, I wrote a poem, forcibly [...]

When boys get together, they play. When men join in, they move all the boys’ stuff out of the way and setup the toys they never had as kids. Then they use the boys as props, while videotaping the whole thing. Naturally, one of the men goes home, edits the video, and sets it to [...]

Ben and I went to Krispy Kreme one afternoon recently to get doughnuts. First, we needed to stop at Target to get a CD for his mommy’s birthday. I had told Ben everything on our agenda before we left the house, but of course his toddler brain honed in on the fried rings of fluffy [...]

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(Falcon has come to a close.)
Friday at work I got a call from Shannon. She asked if it was okay if one of her friends left her son, N, at Ben’s grammy’s house. Shannon was leaving town for a ladies’ overnight getaway, and this particular friend needed someone to fill the gap between the time [...]

(continue reading Falcon over in Part Nineteen)

This old guy was playing slide acoustic guitar in the streets of Fayetteville, Arkansas a few years ago. I shot it on film and scanned it in.
I love taking pictures of wizened faces. Every time I look at this photo, I wonder what he was thinking.
In that spirit, I’m [...]

I wrote a post earlier this year covering a similar topic, and at first I was going to ditch the following. Since the first post, however, I’ve adjusted my angle on it a bit, and here I present a few new points. Before writing this, I had not read that entry in months, so it’s [...]

(This is another in an ongoing series about adventures with my first best friend, whom I’ve known since age 6. I have created a table of contents for this saga in the Pages section.)
I don’t remember exactly when, but Chris and I went on a short trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas, with his mom, my [...]

(those following Falcon can go on to Part 18, or newbies can start at the beginning)
My good friend Alvis drove to our house Sunday expecting to help me load a dishwasher into our minivan, then follow me in it as I drove my Sebring. He would drive to Best Buy, me close behind, and then [...]

(readers of Falcon go see Part 17. Those who aren’t reading it yet, get started.)
When I was a kid, I went door-to-door gathering pledges for each mile I would ride in an upcoming bike-a-thon. I did that at least twice, and invariably at least one person was a bit taken aback when I came looking [...]