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A Billion Here, A Billion There, Pretty Soon You’re Talking Real Money
A $5 Burger At 18% Interest In my young ‘n dumb, I got on the no fun end of credit card debt. I bought music, concert tickets, meals. $325 in my checking account, $45
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The Tough We Once Were
Winter is more winter…when winter is in war. December, 1944, American troops are surrounded by German soldiers in a small Belgian city called Bastogne. Out in the forest, on the outskirts of town, two
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Do Guardian Angels Laugh?
Bless Me Father “‘Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose girl.” The priest asks, “Is that you, little Joey Pagano?” “Yes, Father, it is.” “And who was the
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Life 101
The mother of Jesus did not have granite countertops. She had dirt floors and dirty feet. Maybe keep that in mind when you’re praying for “needs”, lest you hear the giggles of angels… Everybody
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Breaking Home Ties
Three And One Of Them The Father. He’s a working man, maybe likes his job, maybe not, sometimes wonders what he’d done with a little more time…but he married young, here come the babies,
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Precious Memories
They cross my Facebook feed frequently, someone posting a picture of the dearly departed, wishing them a Happy-Birthday-in-heaven kind of thing, and often, in the comments is a quote something like this, “…not a
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Any One Of These
If you’ve been tested by betrayal, by death, by meeting your flaws, and still you are, and still you be… If you’ve ever folded down, crumbled, all alone and nobody to impress, and in
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Wishes
When I’m bad I wish I was better. When I’m good I wish it would last. When I’m really good I wish it wouldn’t go to my head. _ _ _ _ _
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The Beatitudes Of Christmas
Blessed are they who get underwear for Christmas. Our family trees have been around since around was around, but only since WWII have we had the affluence to get so many, for so cheap.
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Matriarch
Tis the time of year that much fuss is made over a jolly, fat man who says ho-ho-ho and knocks his job out in one night a year. The real hero of the holiday
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