I’m still on recess from anything important, so here’s my next trivial wondering: What is it with these massive highway “sound barriers”...

After writing a few posts on heavy-duty subjects like Ukraine and Putin, I need a nonsense break. So over the next couple of days, I’m...

First time I ever shot another human being in the heart I was about eight or nine years old. The kid I shot was a little older. Nice...

“These are the times that try men’s souls”, wrote Thomas Paine in “The American Crisis”, December 19, 1776. That same week, General...

Sixty-two years ago today, I said “I do” and Patti said “I do.” And with that, we were married. But three months earlier, on November...

I cheated once. I think it was the only time I deliberately, knowingly did something to “win”. Fresno High School. Junior year....

Early in my career, I served as a pastor on the staff of a large church. One day a parishioner came to meet with me, ostensibly for...

The best tennis match I ever played consisted of only one marathon set. That set ended inconclusively with each of us having won fifteen...

A few years back, Patti and our daughter Ali and I were in a serious pickle. Sailing from Connecticut to Maine in a newly acquired...

It took me a while, but now I appreciate why some individuals want to be referred to as “they”. Thanks to sensitive tutelage by younger...