With all humility this column is part one of a two-part series about people and things that...
the view from the balcony
I love word play in all its different forms. It’s fascinating that the slightest alteration in spelling...
Tune in to a television news show, especially on Sunday, and you’ll encounter it. It happens on...
I love the wind. As a child I reveled in being in the wind, especially when there...
Okay, y’all. It’s time for another installment of “Notes in My Phone,” my chronicles of interesting things...
In the Old Testament of the Bible there were more than a few people who were considered...
(A Call for the Common Good) Platitude – a dull remark, especially if it’s said as if...
Notes in my phone is a collection of attention-grabbing words, phrases, and comments I’ve heard or read,...
It was a quiet Thursday afternoon on The Balcony recently. The weather was amazing and I was...
I’m in the process of divesting myself of “stuff” I no longer need but still want. I...
Last week I was watching a show on Animal Planet about the domestication of feral animals. It...
I’m sitting in my den trying to come up with something to write about. I could pick...
The notes in my phone are real and not the fabrication of a twisted mind—for the most...
I was eight years old and in the third grade when, on November 22, 1963, President John...
Once upon a day so cheerywhile I spoke with friends held dearlyo’er libations cold and beerypond’ring strange...
If Jesus was a cowboyHe’d wear a crumpled hatan’ jeans an’ boots an’ sometimesa worn-out pair of...
It was a dark and windy night. Because of the very real threat of tornados and the...
When I learned that my big brother Rodney took his life on January 27, 2017, I sat...
Nothing is permanent.Bad times and good times are the same in that they both pass away.Gratitude is...
Delusions I needn’t ever let myselfslip into the delusionthat I know you.Every time I slide down that...