Take twelve fine, full-grown months. Make sure that they’re thoroughly cleansed from all old memories of bitterness, anger, hate, and jealousy. Cut these months into thirty or thirty one equal parts. (This batch will keep for a year. Don’t make more than one batch at a time…. many people spoil the entire lot in this way). Prepare one day at …
Will’s Thoughts – Why Professional Fighters Choose To Fight The announcement that our community is soon going to host yet another professional fight, got me to trying to figure out why professional fighters fight, and why the public loves to watch them trying to bash in each other’s heads. At first I thought it was because fighting represents the pinnacle …
No one knows when it first began, but reports of angelic actions at Kmarts across North America are flooding in. For instance, on December 13th, a woman in her mid-forties at a Kmart in Indianapolis paid off the balance owing on layaway orders for as many as fifty people. A young single father, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots, stood …
A Crazy Lady Critter Christmas: I reckon that as we get older, and now that the kids all have lives of their own, Crazy Lady and I lack the celebratory motivation that we once had. It seems a shame to put up the Christmas tree now, and then take it down in a week, so maybe we’ll open presents in …
Here’s a few facts about ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ that you probably didn’t know. Most of the voices were from kids in the director’s neighborhood. Some were so young they couldn’t read a script. Charles would not allow laugh tracks, and though Schulz actually hated jazz music, Vince Guaraldi’s ensemble of holiday infused jazz for the special, became just as …
Rules for dogs at Christmas Time. 1. Be especially patient with your humans during this time of year. They’ll appear to be more stressed-out than usual, and will appreciate long comforting dog kisses and cuddles when they get home. 2. They’ll come home with large bags of things they call gifts. Do not assume that all the gifts are yours. …
Will’s Thoughts – Do angels exist? Are they real? YES! I reckon that this is the one time of year when people think and talk about angels, more than at any other time of year. There’s always been a ton of debate about whether the divine creatures even exist, and if so, what they look like, and do down here …
Will’s Thoughts – I met Crazy Lady on a online personals website. I reckon that our world’s changed a heap in the last century, though our basic nature remains remarkably unchanged. I recently thought about how Crazy Lady and I met, and I realized that without the technology of today, our paths would probably have never crossed. My parents still …
True or False? The first traffic laws were written by a man who never drove a car. : Born in New York City in 1858, William Phelps Eno became a progressive thinking man who observed the massive traffic jams of his era, and from his observations, formulated traffic solutions that carried over from the time of horse and carriages, to …
