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The Obituary of Sears
Towards dusk, going to the local mall, I park where I’ve always parked, on the Sear’s side. Something didn’t look right. The glass doors were there, the lights were on, but inside, a store
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Friday Night Football: Small School Version
Doing the where-you-froms with a stranger, tell him my roots are in a little town called Oberlin. He says “Hoyle Granger! I played against him.” “How’d that work out for you?” “Ankles ‘n shoelaces.
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Tall Tales From A Picker
Gassing up in Texas, I notice this pickup up-to-here with junk. Here comes the guy. “Admiring your load,” I say. “Man, I got barns full.” Two kinds of people in my business: dabblers,
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Pearls Cast Before Swine
Love is a pearl. Other nice words too: friendship, loyalty, good intentions and sincerity, patience, and second chances beyond the count. Unselfishness is a pearl. By the act we acknowledge
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Jimmy Carter: Our Greatest Ex-President
Let’s Begin Our Story With A Public Humiliation Defeating an incumbent president is hard to do. One term presidents include such duds as Taft, Van Buren, and Hoover, but the list is small. On
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My Father’s Last Supper
Diagnosed in September, made it through Thanksgiving, made it through Christmas, one last New Year, for a 1929 model, we were near my father’s end. I knew. Did he know? What the
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Jonas Salk
Conversation with a young man, the crossroads of exiting high school, was like listening to myself talk, senior year of high school, same words I used, “I want to be rich.” If that wasn’t
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A Dog Named Earl
Great Depression, middle o’ nowhere, West Texas, times are hard and waste is a sin. Don’t flinch, nor judge too hard, for their doings were for their time. Dogs dropping litters at a rate
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Local Teaching Legend Harry Methvin
He runs into a former student, “Mr. Methvin, do you remember when you wrote a hall pass on a scrap piece of 2×4?” His reply: “I thought you were going to a board meeting.”
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Advice To Self
(In 2014 I opened up a Word document, all blank and white, and I wrote the first thing that came to mind. From that, another thought linked. Pop, pop, pop, one after the other…and
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