Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Sunday, June 2, 2024

NO MOW

My yard guy didn't show up this week. I'd been worried that he would show up just at the same time my son's pickup was parked in the driveway. Sonny was unloading stuff from his house into my garage for temporary storage after his house sold. He drops in from time to time to sort through his... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 31, 2024

Forget You!

Billy Bratt, so aptly named for starting trouble he is famed, he teases girls and pulls their hair. Teacher times him out in a corner chair. At lunch hour out on the playground he throws his nasty weight around and threatens younger girls and boys. He does nothing but annoy. The playground lady... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

SUMMER BREAK

I know the kids from St. B's - across the old brick street from my front porch - are enjoying the first week of summer break. There was the annual festival on Memorial Day weekend, carnival rides, games, food. Now their families may be headed to theme parks or on scenic camping trips or.... who... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Top o' The Heap

Teddy Truebear lived in a toybox which he shared with alphabet blocks, a box that held a small red ball and a handful of jacks, a half-dozen coloring books and a giant box of 64 crayons. There was also a small bucket and shovel for digging sand at the beach, a plastic wiffle-ball and bat, and a baby... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Clown Show Continues

As Rhett Butler said to Scarlett at the end of "Gone with the Wind," Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Guilty? Not Guilty? Sleeping at the witness table? Insulting the judge and prosecutors, inviting a gag order (to be ignored) denial of plain facts in evidence. Nope. Not interested in another... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 27, 2024

Tongue Twister from Way Back When

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 26, 2024

RANDOM THOUGHTS

1) If you want to take down a pyramid, start at the top. 2) If your children still play pranks on you when you're 80-something, you are blessed. Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 25, 2024

THE GINGERBREAD MAN

Two little kids were lost in the woods. They wandered off from their family while Mom and Dad were setting up the picnic table for an early supper. They were searching for a playground: swings, monkey bars to climb, a slide. They followed a fork in the trail, and in no time at all they were lost.... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 24, 2024

A MODERN FABLE

Once upon a time there was a poor family who lived at the edge of a village where the father worked at any laborer's job he could find. His eldest son was twelve when the father passed away. The boy dropped out of school and took on some of his father's jobs. With little formal education, and no... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

And now, a word from our sponsor...

I was hung up on politics as usual for yesterday's post. Sorry about that. And so today I choose to think of new life: lambs that run and jump in barnyards, new baby pandas being introduced to visitors at the zoo, hikers once again taking to the woodland trails, families preparing to load up the... Sign in to see full entry.

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