Regular Life

Note: For a wonderful story to fit this spooky day, please read the well-written and imaginative “Piper and the Gren” by our very own Moksha Gren.
For a shorter read, see my own “Talk With a Killer,” a thriller that some here have read already.
One Bad Halloween
Whatever you do tonight, do not get into a biscuit [...]

Road trip.
What was the first thing that popped into your head when you read those two words up there? Excited anticipation? Abject fear? Convenience store restrooms to rival the loo in Trainspotting?
What if you are driving eight hours to see a rock band comprised (mostly) of 50-something men attempting to recapture something they last shared [...]

Local donut shop could work on its name a bit.
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They finally did it.

How can one very small person instill such joy and frustration in the same moment?
Our son Benjamin is four years old, plus some change. Only slightly larger than the average child his age, in his nearly 40-pound frame he packs an emotional punch that can elicit amazement, bewilderment, consternation, and every emotion between, without warning [...]

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“Hey, could you grab a Wal-Mart bag for me? I need something to put our shoes in for the trip.”
“Look at that Wal-Mart bag caught in that tree over there.”
These or similar phrases are not uncommon in our area. Whether or not you frequent Wal-Mart, I’m sure a clear image of that type of bag [...]

The meaning of the term “date night” morphs into something wholly different than back before we had a child. Spontaneity takes on new meaning, too.
In our pre-kid (PK) days, these nights were random in nature. Sure, if we had big plans, we generally held them on an evening when neither of us worked the next [...]

Benjamin and friends aboard the barrel train.
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You ever stand downwind of a billy goat? They soak their beards in their own urine to mark themselves. I understand why there’s no goat overpopulation problem.
What’s with the popularity of pumpkin farms recently? It seems every town has one nearby, usually hawking pumpkins [...]

(Note: If you haven’t read Make Mine Fire Engine Red, then you might want to do that now to know what’s happening)
A thin man about six feet tall with sandy blond hair and matching mustache carefully released the clamps on a paint shaker and lifted a gallon can onto the counter with a thump. “I’ll [...]

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