Uncle P’s Bedtime Stories »
Things Everyone Has To Figure Out For Themselves
Figuring out who you are. Not one snowflake has ever been repeated. No two grains of sand, nowhere on Earth, are the same. Not one leaf, in the history of leaves, has ever been
Read More »
Blessings Of Age
When you’ve seen the world move right along After burying people who are better than you When you are old enough to be humble About ever being alive And still being alive…
Read More »
Mary Did You Know
I don’t January like I used to January. Thank you, aging. Back when my hairs were many, and dark, my New Year’s Resolutions were serious, but silly. I had my facts wrong. I
Read More »
A Life Of Giving
Laurelle, my father’s hospice nurse, sits next to Dad, asking questions, “How did you sleep? How often did you wake, and was it because of pain?” He is old, forgetful, dying of cancer, his
Read More »
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
… a story for people who want their lives to matter, but mostly, they feel small, and anonymous, wonder if anything sticks… The reaction to the death of Harry T. Methvin caused people to
Read More »
Things You Have To Figure Out For Yourself
Everyone starts out blank 1. Figuring out who you are. 2. Figuring out the purpose of life. 3. …and your purpose within life. No diplomas for this stuff 4. Figuring out you ‘n
Read More »
Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
On August 24th, in the year 79 AD, after centuries of being a mountain, Mount Vesuvius became a killer. Maybe the mountain gave warning, some, a little, the animals acting strangely, maybe there was
Read More »
Change With The Change
A story for parents and grandparents, who wonder, if anything they say, sticks. When I was young, I didn’t want what my elders were selling, all that slow ‘n steady, do right, even if
Read More »
We May Not Pass This Way Again
(In July of 2014 I did not know what was coming.) I was driving Clifford, my 1992 Ford dually diesel, 300,000 miles on the motor, body looked like half a million, headed to Texas,
Read More »
A Prayer
Our Father, Who loves us Despite our despites, Because, because, because… Thank You For Your all-ness And everything-ness. Thank You for our lives And another day of it. May we respect
Read More »
