Varmints are haunting our gardens with unabashed brazenness! Insultingly, I find rabbits playfully romping through my garden with all care thrown to the wind, and when I pound on the window or yell and clap my hands from the back door, they seem to defiantly go into a stare-down competition ...
As a kid, the last Monday of May was always called Decoration Day. We certainly didn’t shop, but instead stopped to honor the men and women who gave everything for our freedom. We went to the cemetery for the military services, walked past the fallen, placed fresh flowers and colorful ...
Emergency rooms are such weird places, am I right? I mean, you go in there when you're sick and feel like death warmed over, and they usually ask you to take a seat. I have been in my fair share of emergency rooms; I've even had my fair share of ambulance rides. All of which were ...
Dear Graduate, Have you ever looked back and thought to yourself, "if I only knew then what I know now.” Or how about this one, when I was about 15 or 16, my Mom & Dad were just not very smart people but by the time I reached my mid-20s, I was quite surprised how smart they had ...
For as long as I can remember, my favorite part of speech has been the always acceptable alliteration. The dictionary defines an alliteration as “the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.” As a local newsman, I love thinking of ...
Dear Graduate, Have you ever looked back and thought to yourself, "if I only knew then what I know now.” Or how about this one, when I was about 15 or 16, my Mom & Dad were just not very smart people but by the time I reached my mid-20s, I was quite surprised how smart they had ...
My mom had “mom”-isms, pearls of wisdom meant for instruction which she readily applied to my many moments of idiocies — wasted axioms of truth on me. One of the “mom”-isms was when I was scowling, she quipped, “Be careful, Mike, or your face will freeze like that!” Or her ...
I don't know it to be true, but I like to think that when I was just a chunky little baby, my big sister, just a kid herself, flipped me the bird, and I returned the favor. The Unholy Middle Finger, The Bird, The One Hand Salute, all of these are just synonyms for a single finger on the ...
I never thought I would be voluntarily writing, let alone someone publishing my work. I never applied myself in high school, I was much more concerned with running in circles and soaring over the top of a band with my instrument of choice, the trumpet. Some may know I took a gap year and ...
There are universal questions we all have. Is there a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? In golf, what is an albatross? Is it possible to NOT encounter a detour in Iowa during the summer? What exactly is the difference between jelly and jam? And who actually decided to be the first ...