Musings From the Sage
The medical evac helicopter disappeared into the moonless night. I stood by our oldest son and his daughter who was named after the precious cargo on that helicopter, her grandma, and my wife of 52 years. I thought, “They call these helicopters ‘Flight for life.’ I sure hope this one is not flight-for-death.” I looked […]
“Awesome Crap Sale” was the sign our neighbors (Jeff & Marie) erected to announce their garage sale last weekend. I figured this was a real can’t-miss-event, so I ambled over to see how awesome their crap really was. While looking over their knick-knack table (“You can have anything on the table for only 10¢ each”), […]
A cute 7-year-0ld boy was in full Batman costume at Walmart. I said to his mother, “Do you always travel with Batman?” She smiled sweetly at her son, then looked up at me. “That’s pretty much up to him.” As I walked away, I thought, how true – even for me, a grown man. I […]
An old college friend I have reminisces too much about our college days: How good we played basketball, how much the girls loved us, and all the crazy things only he recalls we did. His wife says, “He remembers lots of things that never happened.” The guy personifies the saying, “the older I get, the […]
Ron Ross By 8:00 pm that night the pain around my heart had increased substantially. I figured it was one of those gas bubbles created by the extra-bacon BLT I made myself a few hours earlier. Problem was, it kept getting worse. I changed sitting positions, swallowed some antacids, took a short walk, drank a […]
The big church service was over, and the adults talked and talked and talked like they usually did. So I, an easily bored six-year-old boy, decided to go downstairs to play in the Sunday school area. There was a sand box in the middle of one of the rooms, a perfect place for a little […]
