I wonder if there was a quotable piece of advice that I told my daughters. I texted them just now to see if there was something that stood out. Regardless of their reply, or lack thereof, I was just kind of comparing myself to my father. I loved my father very much, and though he […]
There is a storm raging, whether we admit it, it is on us. It is pressing down hard, we feel it, we know by the weight, by our fatigue in drawing our breath, everything, everything, is heavier today than it was a scant few weeks ago. The news is bad, the news is constant, unrelenting, […]
He told me that he heard her name for the very first time while speaking with his girlfriend on the telephone back when he was 15 or 16 years old. He said it was almost a year before he ever saw her face and then a few months after that before he met her. “The […]
With the ABSOLUTE HYSTERIA of the last few weeks regarding the dreaded Coronavirus, or to sound really intelligent, COVID-19, I’ve been thinking about all of this nonsense and honestly, I’m just stunned. Is this thing maybe just a little scary? Hell yeah, it is. But to me it isn’t because I’m worried about getting sick. […]
Remember back this past Sunday. There were many posts on social media about the fact that there would be a time change, a full moon, and a Friday the 13th? Well, they left one out. They left out this little thing called a PANDEMIC. We are seeing constant updates to the point that we are […]
The date was July 6, 2019. Melissa and I had been venturing out farther and farther from home on the bike and enjoying the experience more and more. By this point, we had gotten into a groove of riding together and I was feeling more confident riding 2-up on the Honda VTX 1300. I only […]
Every year, beginning in February, an activity commences that as far as I know, happens nowhere on the planet, other than the North American South. What’s the activity you ask? Well, it is the time-honored tradition of the crawfish boil. There is documentation that the American Indians of South Louisiana baited reeds with deer meat […]
This blog stuff, as totally lame as it may seem to some of you, has been a great deal of fun for me. You will probably never know the hesitation I experienced before hitting the enter key to publish my own words for the first time. I think many of you know that I post […]