For my family, Thanksgiving has always been the day that friends and relatives get together to thank God for His blessings on us for the last year. We\'ll have the kids and grandkids over, the house will be noisy and the aroma coming from the turkey and dressing in the kitchen will be maddening. Before we eat, we\'ll all gather at the table and give thanks not only for what He has given us,...
At the beginning of this vicious presidential race I complained that there wasn\'t a lot of difference in the two candidates, John McCain for the Republican Party and Barack Obama, a Democrat. Being a political conservative, I thought that John McCain had entirely too many leftist leanings and Barack Obama was much too liberal for me to even think seriously about giving him my vote. Since...
In a moment of insanity, when my brain must have escaped for Guadalajara, I replied to an email that asked if I was interested in a home based business opportunity. Since then my mailbox has been stuffed with postcards, brochures and letters inviting me to become rich almost overnight.
Every day, another two or three \"offers\" hit my mailbox assuring me that with absolutely no money and...
My friend Homer loves to work even though he reached retirement age almost 15 years ago. He worked for a global aeronautics company until they dismissed him almost a decade ago when he reached 70 years of age. This prompted him to sue, claiming the company had dismissed him because he had reached his golden years. He won the right to keep his job in court and has been hard at work since...
All the rhetoric from politicians and bad news from Wall Street are making me sick and I\'m going to do something about this problem. I\'m going fishing! In these uncertain economic times and with both presidential candidates getting nastier when they talk about each other, I find this is the perfect time to go on an extended fishing trip.
Since the same guys that got us into this mess to...
Like most people, when I awake in the morning, I remember little of my dreams of the night before; much less recall them in detail a week later. Usually I'll dream something weird and then can't remember it, but this time every detail of that night was as vivid as if it were happening again, only in black and white. At this point I've come to the conclusion that it wasn't a dream at all, it...
An evil is stalking the world now that wasn't here when I was a kid. Maybe it's been here all along but as a kid I never saw it lurking near the cotton fields of north Alabama. We knew what the devil was of course, from going to the West Huntsville Baptist Church every Sunday morning and evening, but I don't think it entered our minds to think he was walking down the same road as us.
It's...
It's difficult to be stressed out when you're sitting on your back porch at midnight in the summertime, with a good book, cold drink and a halo of hickory barbeque smoke swirling around your head. The meat was sizzling and the smoke, apart from shooing the mosquitoes away, was heavenly with the aroma of meat, spices and herbs. I couldn't have asked for better therapy to cure the effects of a...
Even though I wasn't snoring, my wife hit me in the ribs with her elbow and hissed for me to wake up! With all the dignity I could summon, I whispered that I had not been asleep but was having a spiritual moment with God. He and I had been having a silent conversation, a dialogue that she had interrupted!
She gave me a look that spoke volumes and didn't bother to reply, but continued to...
There were 15 of us with our backs stooped and sweat running down our foreheads into our eyes. It had rained the night before and we were slipping and sliding down the long rows, trying to fill our buckets before the sun got too hot. Even early in the morning it was already 80 degrees and climbing.
As the day gets warmer, June Bugs, Wasps and Bumble Bees make the bean vines hum as they...
