This week has been a struggle, at least where any kind of writing is concerned.  Writer’s block has ruled the day.  Actually, all the days.  And it wasn’t for a lack of possible topics.  Kathryne and I were spending a week in Sedona, Arizona so there was all the “preparation to leave” material.  Then the […]

He came to the building intent upon purchasing a monument for himself and his wife.  She had died just over a year before, and he’d thought about it often enough, but folks kept telling him they’d help him with it . . . but that’s all they ever did.  He wanted a family member to […]

Last week I recounted the tale of our smoldering heat and air unit, the one that made me believe the world as I knew it was about to change drastically.  In the course of my story, I mentioned our code for a fire in the building—Code Jerry Lee—which was based on the song “Great Balls […]

I was quietly working away in bookkeeping last Saturday evening, minding my own business and not bothering anyone else.  It seemed a little chilly, which is understandable since bookkeeping is in the garage, so I turned on the heat for the first time this season, and went back to the tasks at hand.  A few […]

Several months ago, for reasons which have absolutely no bearing on this epistle, ABC elected to cancel the show Rosanne and reinstate it as The Conners, minus one of the main characters.  When a network does that, a couple of things can happen.  Either the character goes on a very long trip or takes a […]

If any of you have checked the news on-line lately or scrolled through Facebook, you’ve probably read or watched the story of Kaley West Young’s father-daughter dance at her wedding.  Actually, it was a brothers-sister dance because Kaley’s dad died in 2015, so her five big brothers stepped in, not to take their dad’s place […]

In the mid-years of my life, my father often made trips to Nashville for meetings.  If it wasn’t the Tennessee Funeral Directors Association Board of Directors it was the Tennessee State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, and if it wasn’t the State Board it was the Board of David Lipscomb University, and if it […]

Her name is Yoko Sen.  As she walked onto the stage, you didn’t get the sense of a compelling presence.  She was small, slight of frame with a lilting voice that could easily lull you to sleep with its sing-song quality.  But somehow, as she began to speak, she filled the space, her words echoing […]

My little Kathryne wandered into bookkeeping a few weeks ago and asked if I would like to go to a creativity conference.  Since I had no idea what that meant, she stood behind me while I Googled “STORY 2018” in Nashville and then while I learned all about “an immersive, two day conference-style gathering designed […]

On September 11, 2001 I was walking through the house, trying to get out the door and off to work.  A news station played mindlessly in the background, providing noise in an otherwise quiet place.  But something caught my attention as I passed through the den.  The first plane had already struck the North Tower […]