Little did we know that when we bitched about the apathy of youth, while yet in our youth, that the day would come when we would long for a generation who could not give a lesser shit about this or that. An inspiring individual told me on more than one occasion that she is impressed […]
I had a conversation the other day with someone who has been a follower of my site almost from the start. I apologized for not posting as frequently as I need to and gave the excuse that COVID-19 had kind of hindered efforts on my part. Then she told me something very revealing. She said, […]
It started in the fall of 1978. The West Marion Trojans opened the football season against the Columbia Wildcats. I was a sophomore and was starting in my first high school football game. I think I weighed about 130 pounds, but that may be stretching it a bit. As far as West Marion was concerned, […]
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. […]
I think all of us dads out there often worry that we aren’t able to be that “everything” in the eyes of our children. Work and the day-to-day grind rob us of time and then there is often guilt associated when we go out and do guy things that don’t include them, like a favorite […]
One of my favorite things to do is binge watch series on the streaming services that I subscribe to. Even in the days before streaming, my favorite Christmas gifts each year were full-season DVDs of TV shows like Boston Legal, Castle, Sex and the City, or The Sopranos. This is a shortlist, of course, there […]