was about six years old and my grandfather had a pair of truck drivers that provided my first exposure to the “geniuses” that constitute the criminal element. The drivers were a father and son duo that one Saturday morning, took the back seat out of the father’s car and drove to a farm a few miles north of town. Once there, they somehow managed to load a 400 pound hog into the back of the car.  Turning around, they headed back south of town to the local livestock auction.

If your McMansion is equipped with quarters and a pair of live-in maids, or if you’re married to the perfect Stepford wife and don’t have a clue where the laundry room is, you can stop reading now. The following will not apply to you and the rest of us don’t want to know about your elevated social status. If you are like the rest of male humanity, you either need to help with the laundry or if you

When I was a kid, Christmas got kicked off the first week, or sometimes the second week, of December when the train arrived with the fresh cut Christmas trees.  Everyone in town helped unload them – and got a chance to pick out the best.  By the way, it was a steam train – it’s been quite a few years.  Now, we might as well toss in the towel make Christmas a year round event.

Quick apology: I intended to write this soon after returning home, but “other stuff” kept me busy and this got wedged and shoved into the background clutter of my cluttered brain. Later when I was writing an article about becoming a pilot, I had to turn off the computers, unplug them from the wall, and consider where I was gonna take cover as I spied a pair of funnel clouds menacing me from the no

Friends and neighbors, boys and girls, the Apocalypse is upon us! Why? Because we humans have lost our friggin’ minds!  We are committing specie-cide! All it takes is a trip to your local grocery store to provide all the proof you need that wholesale insanity is loose in this world! With insanity on my mind (or in it, or something,) I decided to play investigative reporter, (like back when that ac

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