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Throw Pillows Are Evil

Being a man can be perplexing. I'm sorry, that was not very concise, allow me to reword that. Trying to be a man in a woman's world is...

Dear Tony

Even back in the day people seemed to come to me with their problems. I should have done like Lucy in the Peanuts comic strip and set up...

Seasons of our Lives

Grandma liked to compare our lives to different seasons. I never knew what she spoke of until lately, probably because I was in the...

Quality

Sometimes quality is subjective and other times most of us agree. Primarily, what's the deal with restaurants serving margarine instead...

Seasons of Our Lives

Grandma liked to compare our lives to different seasons. I never understood what she spoke of until lately, probably because at the time...

Aging is Not for Sissy's

Have you ever looked in the mirror and said to yourself audibly, how did I get here? It wasn't so long I examined that horizontal line...

Infomercials

If you have ever suffered from insomnia, you have likely had your own bout with infomercials. If a product has that familiar notification...

Should Throw Pillows be Thrown?

Being a man it simple yet complex. Perplexed? So am I! Allow me to try to restate that thusly, without prejudice, and extract to you the...

Simplicity Rules

Not so long ago I heard a radio interview with Clint Eastwood about his stint in spaghetti westerns he filmed back in the 60's. The...

The Case for Nudity... or Not

As you fine people know I am always on the hunt for a news story that are begging to be made fun of. And this past week I found just the...

Phobias (my wife)

My wife has a phobia about dang near everything in life down to the smallest details. Not so long ago we went on an after-dinner ice...

The Waffle House

If any of you fine people are not from south of the Mason Dixon Line you may not be aware that there is a razor thin line between cuisine...

Kale Chips... Why?

When I was a kid on occasion my mom would make me eat liver. I have but one burning question stated simply, thusly, and without...

The Bees Knees

Trying to teach my countrified version of sex education from my porch swing in Broken Arrow could get sticky, but hey I am up for the...

Bad Ideas

Sometimes I think I am doomed to see life from a different perspective. It wasn't so long ago I dined at a higher-end steak house in...

Being Bill Clinton

I promised you fine people I'd try to stay as far away from politics as I could but there are just too many good stories that go along...

Football

Anytime I start criticizing an organization as wealthy as the NFL with the truth (as I see it) it makes me a little nervous. But what the...

Breaking in Shoes

One Sunday not so long ago I stopped to help a young woman at church to her car after she broke a heel on one of her shoes. She tweaked...

The World is Full of Animals!

I consider myself a steward of life, that is to say that I don't see myself as naive and there isn't often much that happens within the...

Expanding The Mind

A salty old welder once taught me the life lesson that there is nothing new under the sun. That is to say there are few realizations that...

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