My friend Ben is one of those guys that you just cannot anger. Traffic? No problem, he’s a saint on the interstate who never raises an eyebrow, much less a finger at someone who cut him off from the slow lane. When his wife left him for another man, Ben loaned them his truck and … Read more
The dogs chased an armadillo this morning, well, the three who aren’t ancient and infirm did. About five-thirty, predawn, thick fog hanging in the air, Wrex Wyatt, the only true hunter in the pack, cornered the possum-on-the-half shell under Mom’s patio steps. Budlore Amadeus and Jessica Elizabeth soon joined the chase. Wrex got the armadillo … Read more
I knew my marriage was bad. How bad, it was hard to tell, really, it was. But she was odd about me being alone, very odd, and even when I was sitting on the toilet she would come in and look at me. She came into the bathroom and stared at me in the shower. … Read more
The law states you can turn right at a red light after stopping. Valdosta, Georgia there is an intersection at Gornto and Saint Augustine where you can be hung out to dry making a left turn. If you left your pet mayfly at home, sorrow will visit you. Yes, there is a green arrow light, … Read more
Back in 2019, when I was dying and didn’t realize it, the PA who was attending me was both short, and a woman. She was young looking, and I had guessed her age to be somewhere about twelve. In reality, she was forty-one, was married with two kids, and was trying to keep me from … Read more
The whole purpose of AI, the reason it exists, is to both gather information about you, and use that information to change your behavior. If you like Oreos, and it knows when you are more likely to buy them, the worst that will happen is you wind up with teeth like a hillbilly and a … Read more
Occasionally, the urge to push it seeps in, like a good buzz, like the heat of a summer day daring you, urging you to cross the line from a good, solid workout, to finding where exhaustion is hiding. It had to be out there, somewhere, in the downed trees, the leftover logs, and the debris. … Read more
The first time I stepped into a Yoga class, back in 2006, I was not only the only guy in the class, but I was also the only guy that had ever taken a Yoga class there. Chatter stopped, the women stared, and the instructor raised an eyebrow at me as if to say, “This … Read more
Someone told me once I got the house painted, the project would morph into something else, and they were right. But first, let’s revisit the painting project, which my neighbor, a wise man who seemed to know better than to visit in the middle of everything, waited until the finished product until he stopped by. … Read more
Many years ago, I dated a woman who help feed a “colony’ of feral cats. She would set food out in a half dozen containers and the cats would come out of the woods to eat. I had never seen this before close up, and it was an odd experience. She bought about fifty pounds … Read more