Friday Humor Devotional
Dear Lord, please help me explain to my softball coach wife, when I asked her if she was bringing her favorite old bat to the spring opening game, I wasn’t referring to my mother-in-law, Amen. […]
Tag: funny stories
Sister Adolfa’s Revenge
A 1950s-60s Catholic school upbringing is like Superglue. It really sticks. (Sister Adolfa, wherever you are, please notice my clever use of simile. … Yes, Str, I know the difference between a simile and a […]
Summer and Ice Cream
Spring has finally given Winter a well-earned kick in the groin and sent him flying back to the North Pole, where he will have to wait his turn to have fun with us again. Spring […]
Friday Humor Devotional
Dear Lord, please help me to get out of the proverbial dog house for upsetting my wife. After an unfortunate eyebrow waxing incident I told her she looked fine. However, as she left for work […]
Opera For People Who Don’t Like It
There was a time in the history of opera when singers ruled. If you had a great voice, it wouldn’t matter if you looked like a gorilla. You were in. Stage directors would never dare […]
Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
Auditions If you think job interviews are the liver and Brussels sprouts on the dinner plate of life, try doing an audition sometime. An audition makes a job interview look like a triple-dip double chocolate […]
Older Brothers Behaving Badly
I was asked recently, “What story had the biggest impact on me when I was a child.” My response was: My older brothers made me read a story when I was in second or third grade, […]
The Reluctant Homemaker
My Mom and my Grandma made valiant attempts to domesticate me when I was a kid back in the 50s and early 60s. They were worried because I was a tomboy. I was not above […]
How to Waste Time and Burn Poorly Built Bridges
Ok, sometimes I’m an idiot. Sometimes I need to learn a lesson more than once. Sometimes more than twice. Lesson: “You don’t get something for nothing.” Another way to put it is “You get what […]
Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
The So-Called Life of an Opera Singer Life upon the wicked stage ain’t nothin’ for a girl. Ellie in Jerome Kern’s and Oscar Hammerstein II’s musical Show Boat* People outside “The Business” are fascinated when […]