There is a kind of social inattention that I have always found humorous. I notice it most on the few occasions when I golf with friends. Golf is not something I take very seriously. If you ever saw me golf you would know why. The more pressure on me to make a good shot, the […]
Bad Day
I spend a lot of time waiting for my family to get in the car so we can go places. One of the things that keeps me from getting hostile about that is that I get to scare them by beeping the horn when they walk by the front of the van. It’s just one […]
No Hurry
In the seventies Jim Croche recorded a haunting song called “Time in A Bottle.” You probably remember it. The song laments the swift passing of time and it’s made all the more poignant when you realize the singer himself was killed in a plane crash when he was a young man. A dear fried of […]
Reasons to Get Out of Bed in the Morning
My Dad taught be to rise early. He challenged me at twelve years old to take a morning paper route. The paper was the Dayton Journal-Herald. My first Journal-Herald route was in a the little burg of DeGraff about thirty miles northeast of Dayton. I rose around five every morning and peddled my bike around […]
How I Lost 105 Pounds
I have lost over 100 pounds and kept it off. I would like to answer a question I have been asked at least a hundred times: “How did you lose your weight?”
Are Your Lights On?
It must have been the coldest day of the winter so far. Our neighbor silenced the pleading of his children by climbing to the top of his TV antenna tower to hang a star of colored lights. His daughter came down the hill red-cheeked, all bundled up and begged us to come up and see […]