Remember when we had three TV channels with decent programming?
Now I have cable TV and still only have about three TV channels with decent programming.
Recently, the cable company called me to tell me that they detected that my cable signal was weak and that it needed to be fixed.
I have to hand it to them. It wasn’t so long ago that trying to get any TV provider to answer the phone when you had a problem was virtually impossible. So, ...
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Who’s in charge of choosing and naming the food?
Recently during a night out at dinner, I noticed food names on the menu, which I normally think nothing of, but the more I thought about them, the weirder they sounded.
This, in turn, made me think of foods which shouldn’t even be food.
Some food names may be effective in selling the product, but they can also be downright creepy. And some things just shouldn’t be eaten.
Chicken fingers. Somehow, this menu item, normally ...
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“J-O-H-N-N-Y,” I said.
Mrs. Walker looked across the desk at me and smiled. She thanked me for telling her how to spell my name. I liked Mrs. Walker from the start. She was nice to me.
It was 1968. Johnson was about to leave the White House and Nixon was soon to be elected. It was a tumultuous year for the country, and it was my first year of school.
This particular day was registration day. I said I liked Mrs. Walker, and ...
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“Mister Moore, I have bad news. You’ve had a heart attack.”
This was not going to be a typical Wednesday.
I stared at the ER physician from my ambulance gurney and tried to process what my wife, boss and I had just heard.
“How bad was it?” I asked.
“Significant,” he responded.
At the ripe old age of 52, I was the newest member of the coronary club.
For almost two days, I’d had the classic symptoms; significant chest pressure, pain radiating down my left arm ...
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Ice cream is the perfect dessert.
After years of trying lots of different sweets, and teetering on the brink of numerous diabetic comas, I have come to the conclusion that ice cream is, in fact, the perfect dessert.
I have long argued that pie is better than cake, and I stand by that argument. However, choosing an overall best in the sweets category is easy. It’s ice cream.
Ice cream is far above other desserts in its diversity, taste, texture, and its consistency ...
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I love garage sales.
There are some habits that you pick up from family and some that you don’t. Going to garage sales is one that I picked up.
As a kid, my family went to garage sales and estate sales almost every weekend. Part of the reason for this, I suspect, was that my grandfather was a blacksmith and went to Canton Texas Trade Days each month to buy many of the shop items he needed for resale.
It was around 1968 ...
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Kids nowadays may have cooler toys, but my generation had the best bands.
The 1970s produced some of the best music this country has ever seen. The bands that carried myself and other teens through that great decade are still as solid sounding in an mp3 file now as they were from an LP then.
The Beatles broke up in 1970, but the influence they had on their musical descendants lasted at least 10 great years. My love of rock music began ...
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Vacations are not for the faint of heart.
Anyone who has ever taken children on a trip across country in an automobile knows exactly what I’m talking about.
Planes have certainly helped when it comes to travel, but it wasn’t always so easy.
Before air travel was common for the masses, when the school year would end American families would cram as much luggage and as many people as possible into a station wagon and head out on that summer’s adventure.
As screaming kids ...
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There are many things that separate Northerners from Southerners, but the way we drink our tea has to rank near the top of the list of differences.
If you were born below the Mason Dixon line, it is assumed that you drink sugar in your tea. Lots of sugar. And, for the most part, your tea is iced tea, not hot tea. Some folks who drink hot tea in the south will put honey in it, but not sugar.
Most Northerners I’ve ...
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Life is full of unanswered questions.
It seems that there are just some things that we’ll never understand.
I’m not referring to ‘What is the meaning of life?’ or ‘Is there life on other planets?’.
I’m referring to things such as single-ply toilet paper.
For the love of all that’s holy, why was this product invented? Better yet, why do people buy it? When I mistakenly come home with a 12-pack of single-ply toilet paper, I look up and ask karma what it was ...
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