Prime Time Pornography

I made the mistake of tuning into CBS for distraction the other day when I walked on the treadmill due to bad weather outside. I should have known better, as I had seen bits and pieces of their Monday night line-up before when looking for something to watch and was...
Nature’s First Green Really is Gold

Nature’s First Green Really is Gold

Now don’t panic-I’m not putting you through an English lesson on poetry-and we could look at this one on several levels, but Robert Frost said it best when he wrote “Nature’s first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold.” We drove down to the Texas Hill Country for our...
Dreary Saturday Blues

Dreary Saturday Blues

Pity Party Central here. B.B. King is wailing about the “Stormy Monday Blues,”  and as much as I like B.B. King, Bobby Bland does that particular song better. The sky is overcast and gray, as it has been for several days,  the wind is still blowing, the...
Ben’s Basketball Game

Ben’s Basketball Game

Our neighbors down Highway 84 at Sudan watched their girls’ basketball team, the Nettes, become the Class 1-A state basketball champs. The town was giddy with pride and joy over the team’s accomplishment, as they should have been. But we traveled south last weekend to...