Regular Life

I’m pretty sure this was an accident.
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About a week ago Saturday, Benjamin and I went to Home Depot to build a firetruck. You know, the kind that’s little and holds crayons in its back end?
Cloudy skies started us off just right. We climbed out of the minivan [...]

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I’ve seen a black widow in the wild before, but it was in a place that didn’t directly affect me. Sunday was a different story.
Our neighborhood (and the town in general) is seeing more than its fair share of black widow spiders this year, and for the past week our [...]

“Just going for the ball, I swear!”
“Well, you got’em both. Now get off me!”
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Yesterday’s post was nearly 2,000 words, so now I bring you pictures, which I’ve heard are worth 1,000 each (but take a lot less of your time).
These are just a few samples of the rainy adventure [...]

I wrote this several years ago, originally with the intent to make it a column in the newspaper where I worked as a reporter. I never could pare it down enough to get it in, and it had a few potentially indecent passages. So here it is, in time for the upcoming Arkansas-Auburn game Saturday [...]

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UPDATE: Now that everybody’s taken their guesses, here’s how you can re-create this scene:

Step onto elevator to head down to hotel lobby and leave for downtown Chicago
Notice movement overhead and look up to realize it is just you
Think to yourself, “Hey, that’s kind of cool.”
Switch on [...]

Without even trying, our four-year-old son has made me more honest, less lazy, and happier. All this while occasionally getting so far under my skin that I want to yell (and, since I’m so honest now, I admit I have failed to suppress that urge more than a few times). In the same day (sometimes [...]

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Downtown Chicago, chock full of skyscrapers and cooled by the winds coming off Lake Michigan, has won a place in my heart. More significantly, it has helped thaw my attitude toward urban areas in general. I wasn’t sure at first what did it, but looking back now, I’m fairly certain.
But [...]

I spilled my breath mints, and now I have a severe case of tic tac® toe. — Mark Williams
That is the first one-liner I’ve created. If it sounds derivative of Steven Wright, it’s probably because I used to nearly pee myself listening to his act. If it isn’t particularly funny, then please accept my apologies [...]

Lincoln and Douglas have a campaign spat.
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Some people on a business trip do their work by day, eat dinner, and then go sit in their hotel room.
I’m not that kind of people. Well, except for tonight, as I sit here writing this, listening to wind-blown rain hitting the window. I alternately [...]

In a newspaper article a couple weeks ago, a reporter wrote, “While the outcome of Arkansas’ 41-38 loss to Alabama is one Razorback fans had just assume forget, the…”
The saddest part for me is that the story appeared in The Northwest Arkansas Times (NWAT), a daily newspaper in my home state. My initial excuse for [...]