As I plugged the Stratocaster into my Fender amp, the buzz of the quarter inch plug made contact with the amp’s input and let me know that the amp was ready when I was.
We live at the end of a dead end road in the middle of nowhere.
The location was strategic. It was a request I’d made years ago. I’d always wanted to live as far away from town as possible. Town was where the jobs were, but when I ...
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How someone can lose a shoe and not notice is beyond me. But, it isn’t uncommon for me to see one shoe in the middle of the road.
The lone shoe is just part of a much bigger phenomenon that I call random road debris.
Random road debris is anything that you spot in, on the edge of, or near a road that doesn’t belong there.
Stripes in the middle of the road belong there. A striped tennis shoe in the middle of ...
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No one is wrong anymore.
Over the past 10 years or so, arguing has become America’s favorite pastime. Whether it’s politics, religion, sexual orientation, education, health care, or any number of other topics, people now wallow in bickering.
They do it on TV, Facebook, in online chat rooms, even in the waiting room at the oil change place. I witnessed the last one myself.
I can’t be the only one who’s sick of all the arguing.
If someone disagrees with someone else, they each ...
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As a kid, I hated the vegetable garden. If you stood on our back porch, it was to your left. It took up the entire corner of our large yard.
To me, gardens were work and nothing more. From planting, to weeding, to harvesting, to canning, it was a waste of valuable play time. It also took away the area of the yard that the neighborhood kids and I liked using for a baseball diamond.
I would watch television and see advertisements ...
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