Fathering’s Funny Bone
The advice fathers give to their sons comes in many forms, from clipped, world-weary truisms, to hand-on-shoulder parables. Lessons can be serious and masculine, and they can be laced with the humor of a dad […]
Category: Fiction
The Vast, World-Wide Conspiracy of Dance
Dance, according to Robin Collingwood, was the original art form, and are you really going to argue with a guy who has been referred to as “the best known neglected thinker of our time”? I […]
Meeting The Old Me Twenty Years Later
I’m paddling a kayak in Hawaii, listening to my guide tell an adventure story. He was out spear fishing in the ocean when a big fish swallowed the fish he’d just caught. The fish then […]
Me and Jim the Wonder Dog
A trip back to my boyhood home in Missouri presents me with an opportunity to visit with Jim the Wonder Dog, the most famous native of my hometown with the possible exceptions of Dale Carnegie […]
It’s all about the present.
An olde tradition in my massively confusing world is the giving of gifts on birthdays, paydays and special events such as birthdays and paydays. Finding the perfect gift is not easy and that’s why I […]
The Grade School Fixer
Like many citizens of the over-regulated nation that America has become, I didn’t even realize I was a criminal until after I’d read the law. My third grade teacher gave everybody a little pamphlet entitled […]
No Longer Lovin’ It
On Friday The Wall Street Journal reported that the operator of the McDonald’s chain in Japan was forced to recall almost one million McNuggets (which collectively contain one chicken’s worth of meat). The nuggets in […]