Praying at Facebook

August 7, 2019 Hypothesis: More people pray when scrolling through Facebook than in church. Here is a bit of observational comedy I have tried to say from stage, but has fallen flat: “The number of friends you have on Facebook is directly proportional to how...

A Wedding, Some Funerals

A WeddingThere’s really only one thing I miss about the 1980s: I could dress real fine, for real cheap.That’s when I lived in Orlando (when I was selling out to a mouse). I did some of my shopping at a thrift store on the North Orange Blossom Trail. There I...

Half a Brain ~ a poem

If I had half a brain…I’d be able to find my glasses.“Ah.. Yes, here they are.”    I am saying this out loud       through gritted teeth         that hold my glasses.Now, mind...

The Ditch Digger

When I was a child, my grandmother, Sallie Mae Cook, employed all those “stitch-in-time-saves-nine” sayings.  A kind but serious sort, Grandmama harbored low expectations for her wiggly, silly grandson.  The first time she ever asked me what I wanted to be...

I Have Tom Thumb’s Saber!

When I was about eleven years old, my mother and I were cleaning out a small outbuilding we all called The Pack House. This was a single-car garage-sized structure on the property next to the house in which my mother grew up. The Pack House may have been a smokehouse....