NECESSITY is the mother of Invention. Invention's father is a guy named Bob. Bob told me he wanted to name his daughter Mary, but Necessity wouldn't hear of it. She had her mind set on "Invention." Bob tried to reason with her:•None of the other... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Our home has two skylights. They both fulfill their purpose well, if as I assume, their purpose is to bring in skylight. One of them, however, has developed the annoying habit of also bringing in sky rain. I [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Last Friday night we were attacked by a suicide-attack deer as we were driving the Prius, our car from the future. It was after 9PM, when most respectable deer are home from work, bouncing their fawning offspring on their numerous knees. The one who... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
After some routine blood work involving a small vial of My Precious being extracted from my left arm, I had a follow up appointment with my new Asian doctor. Although I should point out that he is far more fluent in my native language than I am in h [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
As readers of Little Loaves may know, several months ago I compiled the stories I had written up to that point into a book, and self-published them as an E-book on Amazon.com. You can see it by going to the Amazon site, clicking Kindle Books, [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have declared June 1 to November 30 to be “Hurricane Season.” When they did this last year, I thought it was a bad idea, and sure enough, before long a Hurricane with the odd [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
My parents moved our family from Maryland to Central Florida in the summer after I completed sixth grade. That fall, after a few traumatic weeks finding my way around my new school, it was becoming clear to me that none of the friends I had at Old P [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Earlier this winter, my brother Doug and his wife Nancy endured a Buffalo snowfall with accumulations recorded between five and seven feet----but enough about them. Their storm can’t be compared to the one Donna and I survived when we lived there, t [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you’ve read my little book, Wry Bread, then you already know me to be a man of exceptional courage. Those exceptionsinclude bears, sharks, wolves, high school principals, feisty aunts, Godzilla and any other realor fictitious creature which may [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The following item appeared in our newspaper last week:“On this date in 1547, Ivan IV of Russia, popularly known as ‘Ivan the Terrible,’ was crowned Czar.”This got me wondering: Just how dreadful must the other candidates have been, if the man popul [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
