The older I get, the more I seem to think about the past. When I get a few spare minutes, I like to scratch out a tale, and while writing about starting my first job, and a guardian angel that a friend’s wife had encountered, I began thinking about my own guardian angel moment. I started my working life, John …
Creeky Is Officially The World’s Oldest Clown As his larger-than-life clown shoes shuffle along methodically while working a crowd, causing laughter and wide-eyed wonder from children, Floyd “Creeky” Creekmore is one of the quieter acts in the circus. But there’s history behind those wrinkled eyes smiling through stage makeup. At 95 years old, Floyd was dubbed the oldest performing clown …
Flames of Misfortune By Robin Lindzer Kelli Cook wiped her eyes as she walked out of the mausoleum. Her brother, Vince, walked beside her with his head down. “Well,” Vince sighed, “now we get to deal with the house.” “Is that all you can think about, cleaning up mom’s house?” Kelli asked, stopping to stare at Vince. Her eyes flashed …
Life Is Real One early morning when there was a thunderstorm, the air seem to be very cool and crisp. The birds were out enjoying the day as I frolicked on the wet grass, revealing my enjoyment in disseminating my inner feeling of rejoicing to everything around me in the garden. I was in the hostel answering many phone calls …
Guardian Angel Ghost Story… This story was told to me by a good friend of mine, and I have no reason to suppose that it’s not true. My pal, Mick, stays in Enfield, London. His wife started to have the same dream, night after night. In her dream, she was walking through a part of a town that she’d never …
It has been said that when an old person dies, a library is burnt to the ground. And the metaphor is appropriate. A long life of experiences, love, laughter and knowledge becomes inaccessible. Gone forever, unless – unless those stories, experiences and earned wisdoms are preserved by the written word or by our modern electronic recording devices prior to the …
Many people feel hopelessly incapable of changing their lives for the better, most of them, only because they simply do not know how to. There is no pill to take, ointment to apply or ritual to perform to magically make it happen, but anyone, and everyone, who will follow a few simple rules, will achieve anything that their heart desires. …
How awesome are people in New Orleans? Absolutely Awesome! When an 11-year-old girl with autism went to see the Krewe of Muses parade during Mardi Gras, a man almost set her hair on fire with his cigarette, and spilt beer over her before calling her a “retard”, at first to his friends, and then later to her face. Emily Mueller …
