Notes in my phone is a collection of attention-grabbing words, phrases, and comments I’ve heard or read,...
the view from the balcony
It was a quiet Thursday afternoon on The Balcony recently. The weather was amazing and I was...
I’m in the process of divesting myself of “stuff” I no longer need but still want. I...
Last week I was watching a show on Animal Planet about the domestication of feral animals. It...
I’m sitting in my den trying to come up with something to write about. I could pick...
The notes in my phone are real and not the fabrication of a twisted mind—for the most...
I was eight years old and in the third grade when, on November 22, 1963, President John...
Once upon a day so cheerywhile I spoke with friends held dearlyo’er libations cold and beerypond’ring strange...
If Jesus was a cowboyHe’d wear a crumpled hatan’ jeans an’ boots an’ sometimesa worn-out pair of...
It was a dark and windy night. Because of the very real threat of tornados and the...
When I learned that my big brother Rodney took his life on January 27, 2017, I sat...
Nothing is permanent.Bad times and good times are the same in that they both pass away.Gratitude is...
Delusions I needn’t ever let myselfslip into the delusionthat I know you.Every time I slide down that...
On March 14, 2024, Good Morning America aired a segment about Sloan Mattingly, a seven-year-old child who...
In 1977 NASA launched the aptly named space probe Voyager 1 to study the farthest reaches of...
A pea soup fog blanketed The Square last Saturday night, swallowing most sounds and making the streetlights...
by Randy Weeks Once upon a dream I was the quiet American, taking a sentimental journey through...
It happened last week—three to five inches of snow and the most frigid temperatures I’ve ever seen...
Last week a post, attributed to Sir Anthony Hopkins, one of the most revered actors of our...
The Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) is fighting to eradicate Israel and her people. Many...