December 10, 2024 - The comedian Don Rickles used to have a joke – “Call me a taxi. OK, you are a taxi..” It was usually good for a few laughs. However, if you are in need of a taxi around these parts you are out of luck. All this reminds me of an incident that happened back in 1987 to my wife, Clara.

September 30, 2024 - I suppose that you could call this a partial list of my “pet peeves”. Webster defines the word “peeve” as – “A vexation, to cause to be annoyed or resentful, to irritate, to vex”. All of these feelings befall all of us at one time or another. The following are a few of my most irritating peeves:

September 17, 2024 - I sometimes wonder about the thought, or lack of it, that goes into the making of signs these days. I have seen road signs and even warnings on medicines that don’t seem to make sense or just state the obvious. I think the fear of frivolous law suits has contributed greatly to all of this unnecessary information.

I have pondered the following signs over the past few years and settled on my own conclusions. Do you agree?

August 26, 2024 - Our daughter, Kay, married in 1979 while in college at Liberty, Missouri. Her new husband, Marti, was also a college student. Being “in-laws” was a new role for my wife and me, and we wanted to get off to a good start to impress our new son-in-law. After the wedding the bride and groom left for their honeymoon. We were left with the task of transporting all the wedding gifts from the church to their new apartment approximately twenty-five miles away. This necessitated our renting a U-Haul trailer to accomplish this task.

July 22, 2024 - I can recall that back in my early days in San Augustine, Texas there were four family doctors who treated our family at various times.  I recall that their names were Dr. Rulfs, Dr. Ellington, Dr. Brake, and Dr. Bennett.

I remember that on several occasions I became ill and my father, Cecil, called Dr. Brake to come to our house and check me out.  I still recall his rather large, black, doctoring bag which contained his exam equipment.  On rare terrifying occasions he would give me a shot to help cure what ailed me.