I had something interesting happen on Wednesday, and I figured I’d share, a bit belatedly.
Earlier in the week, The Digital Kid asked if he could go check out a new place in town, called The Haven.  Now, I’d seen the place, looking over the edge of a bridge that crosses a series of Santa Fe [...]

Oh, the things you’ll hear in life.  I used to think “kids say the darndest things”, but the truth is, everyone has it in them to do just that.  They say laughter works like a medicine – it’s good for the heart.  They, whoever those shadowy figures might be, have hit the nail on the [...]

It’s Tuesday.  I don’t think anybody really thinks much about Tuesdays (except maybe people who celebrate Mardi Gras, which literally means “Fat Tuesday”), but I do.  Tuesdays are the kind of days where you’re just finishing up all our early in the week stuff, but you’re not quite at the late in the week stuff [...]

The typical tale tells of a young boy bringing bugs, snails, slugs, and other creepy crawly things into the home.  After all, it is the role of the adolescent male to be the adventurer, right?  To find the odd, the weird, to imagine the most macabre scenarios about things and creatures of all sorts.
Well, not [...]

100 Words as a daily writing exercise is over, but I’m going to keep this up.  It won’t be a daily thing (or it might not), but it’ll be a bit of fun, and I intend on getting as many people involved as possible, perhaps even starting up a writing meme.  (Thank you, Shelli, for [...]

It was hot out, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at me.  I was enjoying, at that moment, my last Arizona sunset.  It was Friday, August 26th, and the next day my mother, brother, and I would be headed for Kansas.  We had packed and moved the previous month, folding up the [...]

I was stacking up mini-pizzas for supper this afternoon. The kids were off straightening up the boys’ room (it was very crooked!) when I shouted for the oldest to come to the table. He scurried (because, at age 11, he’s still young enough for scurrying to be okay) into the dining room, up [...]

I should be writing an ode to motherhood or something equally as sappy on Mother’s Day, but I’m not. By not writing such a piece, I am not saying I don’t appreciate my wife, mother, and mother-in-law, my sister, my female friends who have children, or any other mother I might randomly meet along [...]

At 4:30 in the mornin’ I’m milkin’ cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows
And I’ve been milkin’ and plowin’ so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone!
So… what’s on my mind today? Affiliation. I’ve really never been one to join groups, cliques, or clubs, or follow exciting new trends and styles. [...]