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When the final chapter in my life’s story has been written and work on the screenplay for the movie begins, someone will be faced with the difficult assignment of deciding who will play me on the big screen. It won’t be an easy task because it will take an actor of the first water […]

Yesterday I listened to the happiest mockingbird in creation. Perched on a limb in a spring time maple tree, he cast a spell on his audience below. We listened to song after song until he wearied of all the applause and left the stage. In a few moments he came back for […]

My vacation is coming soon and the first thing I’m going to do when I get there is to send President George W. Bush a “Having A Great Time, Wish You Were Here!” card. I’ll be fishing in the Gulf of Mexico soon and thanks to him, I can afford to do so a […]

To my slightly used brain it doesn’t appear that there is any real sanity in the world today, much less in the hallways of our schools. Kids today are not really a lot different from the ones I knew back in my high school years, except they have a few more challenges than I […]

Anyone who has ever had a cat has questions about their behavior. I have quite a few that has influenced my behavior around him.
Why do cats have more energy at night? Waking up my cat Spike, especially in the evening when he’s been asleep in his box in the garage, is […]

I miss the animal events at county fairs, but as close as I get to one these days is by watching the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on TV. It’s not quite the same, I guess I miss the smells. In today’s technical world I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with electronic […]

U.S. Highway 72 is an old route in north Alabama, stretching from Bridgeport, Tennessee to Memphis on the other side of the state. Over the years I’ve caught a lot of fish in streams and lakes near this road, where it meandered near the Tennessee River and the backwaters of one TVA dam or […]

Winter weather in most of the south will usually not interfere with a good backyard barbeque. Most of us don’t have to be concerned with sweeping snow off the grill in order to burn a steak. Our biggest challenge in the first cookout of the year is dusting the spiders and crickets out […]

Spike is a pre-owned cat. When we got him from the humane society in their adopt-a-pet program, his name was Lonnie. I couldn’t in good conscience continue to use that name for a cat, so I renamed him Spike. I know that seems more appropriate for a dog, but I think Spike has […]

Wednesday morning I awoke at 2:36 am. I know this because the first thing I did was look at my digital clock and wonder why my left arm was tingling. I certainly hadn’t stuck a paper clip into an electrical outlet during the night. My arm wasn’t hurting, just tingling like […]