Maggie was the curly-haired terrier that lived across the street from us with her soon-to-be-divorced cardiologist and housewife parents. She was orange and brown and weighed about as mush as I did in 1983 when I met her one spring afternoon as she came bounding across her parents’ front yard, […]
A few days ago, Pretty Bride and I were visiting another couple with a young boy about Maddie’s age. The boy came out of his room to greet us when we walked in the front door, and he was wearing a little white plastic helmet that was tightly cinched to […]
Guess what my father-in-law and his wife got us for Christmas? That’s right. A Snuggie! Perhaps you’ve seen the commercials during college football games and have considered getting one. Go ahead and take a few seconds to click on the link and watch the commercial. It’s quite enticing. And the […]
If that isn’t frightening, I don’t know what is: officers are getting promoted too quickly, and PTSD is rampant.
It was Friday, March 13, 1992, and Chad and I had 30 minutes to kill before Trey would clock out at Kroger. Next door lay Drakes Creek park, where I used to ride my blue Mongoose over the BMX track a few years prior. I looked at that chunk of […]
