Last Call for the Merit Badge Failures
It always returns at the end of summer–the feeling of failure. It has a dry, bitter taste that goes with it, as if it’s a wasting disease that afflicts your entire body and psyche and […]
As Colleges Re-Open, Efforts to Clone Male Folk Dancers Grow
KEOKUK, Iowa. Woodminster College is a co-educational liberal arts college that is out of the mainstream of American undergraduate life in this town of approximately 11,000, but it shares one big problem with its fellow […]
A New Grandkid Arrives
Meet Silas Noah. He seems confused. Welcome to reality, Silas. He would be my sixth grandchild, and ninth if you count the step-grandkids, which I do. That means I have as many grandkids as my […]
Gerber Adult Baby Food – and Other Epic Marketing Disasters
What a brilliant idea – baby food for adults in single serving jars. What could possibly go wrong? This was an actual product idea Gerber brought to market. Shockingly, it was an epic fail. (Not […]
No Country for Dangling Modifiers
The mozo was an old man with a bad leg named Luis who had fought at Torreon and San Pedro and later at Zacatecas. The charro stood leaning against the front fender of the truck […]
For Young Cowboy Poets, Hot Practices Only Get Verse
AMARILLO, Texas. Joe Don Mergen has just a week left before he begins the school year as a sophomore at Darrell Royal High School here, but he says he’s looking forward to it even though […]