The owner of an upscale formal wear store wanted to donate his older items for a tax exemption. He settled on donating the clothes to an intercity thrift shop.
After he delivered them to the other side of the city, he and the store manager loaded them into the back of the thrift store. The store’s manager looked at [...]
* Ron White, redneck humorist.
Walking is a fairly boring way to exercise, but I tolerate it. Being able to walk to everywhere frees me to not own a car which saves a whopping amount of money every year.
As I walked to work on Friday, I waited for the light to change at Lancaster Avenue. To my right, was [...]
The author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle misled us. So have the writers of House, MD; Lie to me, Psyche and the Mentalist. What do they have in common? Okay, first point is a gimme; I enjoy these shows.
The other point is a bit more subtle. As an audience, we bought the idea [...]
One moment frozen in my mind goes back to when Yasser Arafat and his followers were surrounded by Israeli forces. They found themselves without any means to escape. The Israelis could have finished them easily off but gave them the chance to pack it in and go to exile in Tunis. What they did with this [...]
It takes a lot to upset me. Unfortunately, I’ll stay that way for far too long when it does happens.
Here’s an example.
My wife, Lyn and I were invited to visit our daughter, Beth at her newly adopted home town of New York City. We wanted to see her in her new life. She wanted to show how well [...]
There is a sub-story in the Christmas attack on America by one – count them, one – terrorist. In the moment of truth when a terrorist with flaming pants was trying to ignite a bomb, it was not someone from our government who rescued the day. It was a fellow traveler. Someone who had no [...]
Mel Blanc was a voice artist known as the man of a thousand voices. If this is not exactly accurate, he came close. Some of the legendary voices he created were cartoon characters we all grew up with: Bugs Bunny, Tweetie Pie, Sylvester the cat and hundreds more.
Mel Blanc was involved in a nearly fatal car accident [...]
You may have someone in your life you can’t forgive. I do. I hope it’s in your past. I wish mine was.
I was at the Doctor’s office reading the usual bland magazine when I came across an article about a woman able to forgive a man who murdered her only son in cold blood. I wondered [...]
Wine has been with me since my Army days. However, my first alcohol contact was the beer my friends either bought from winoes outside of working class bars or snitched from family fridges. Like most folks, I didn’t like the taste at first but did liked the buzz. Next came the hard stuff. Somehow it was more [...]
Two years ago, I blogged about how I met and got a date for that night with my wife on New Year’s Eve 1969. Today’s yarn is how the next date went.
During our first date, Lyn and I agreed to meet at her Mom’s house the next day to watch football.
Some detail first: Lyn became an avid [...]