Now that I think about it 30 years later, it was funny, but it wasn’t at the time.  My first son had a hard time accepting the fact that he had to share his home with his little sister.  When they were both very young my daughter came running into house screaming and crying.  I [...]

The author Leo Tolstoy wrote a short story about a bear hunting trip.  He went with hunters to where they found signs that bears were in the area.  They proceeded to stake a piece of meat to the ground under a tree.  They then suspended a very large log to a limb on the tree, [...]

  A very old man lay dying in his bed. In death’s doorway, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookie wafting up the stairs.  He gathered his remaining strength and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even [...]

There was a man who was looking for something and he searched the mountaintops.  He called out, “Helloooo…” and he would hear the echo call back “Hellooooo…”  He ran to the other mountain, thinking that it was what he was  looking for only to find nothing.  He called out again, “Helloooo…” and heard the echo [...]

A trapper was in the middle of nowhere and stumbled upon a general store and went in.  As the trapper was looking around, the storekeeper said, “I’m havin’ a party tonight, and your invited!”. “Well that’s mighty nice of you.  Thank you”, replied the trapper. “But I gotta warn ya, there’s gonna be drinkin’”, said [...]

I first met Muggles in high school; he had transferred from another school. He didn’t pay much attention to anyone and no one paid attention to him. I got to know him through a friend of mine. His parents had moved to the country and  his father was dying of cancer. He knew how to [...]

My friend and I were heading back to the boat launch, tired and hungry after having fished all morning.  As we got closer to shore I said to my buddy, “Hey buddy, those boats are coming straight at us real fast!”  He was piloting our small boat, and he looked over but did nothing.  We [...]

Muggles and I agreed to go skiing on the cheap. We drove an hour and a half to the mountain before he discovered that he’d forgotten his hat. We bought our lift tickets and went to the ski shop, only to find that we couldn’t afford even the cheapest hat that they had. I lent [...]