Signs, Signs, Everywhere A Sign

Saw something right unusual yesterday afternoon and I wanted to share it with y’all. I expect it’ll be about as divisive as most of my opinions tend to be.
Budge and I were going to lunch on one of the busiest roads in our area and as we passed “the” Super WalMart, I noticed a guy [...]

Seven Things You Don’t Need to Know about Me – A Meme

Okay, since one of my best buds, Cathy Jo Nelson, tagged me for this meme, I suppose I’ll take my best shot at it.
1) I’ve been engaged six times. Budge was my sixth fiancee’ and wears the third diamond ring I’ve purchased. Hers is hers alone. I didn’t try to recycle with her. That may [...]

And so this is Christmas . . .

Well, I hope right now you are either enjoying or recovering from enjoying the celebration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth around 2008 to 2011 years ago. I shy away from religious discussions like the plague because, regardless of my reputation, that is one sensitive area I prefer not to insult or challenge people [...]

Top Ten Mysteries that Fascinate Me

This post arises from a meme, Paul C at Quoteflections “respectfully” began this meme: Life is One Big Top Ten (2008). Doug Johnson and Cathy Jo turned me on to it, so I had to come up with something of my own. I picked mysteries. I am facinated by what cannot be explained and the [...]

Busted Flat in Baton Rouge . . .

Wait’n on a train and that train may be about to hit us square in the mouth.
That train has a name and it ain’t “The City of New Orleans” or “The Orange Blossom Special.” It’s a freight train of budget cuts, recession, and assorted other economic woe. It’s headed this way and it’s moving at [...]

On Frustration

I submit to you a simple question . . . is any other profession in the world as rife with frustration as being an educator of any stripe? Do lawyers and doctors ever want to go home and bash their own foreheads repeatedly with an aluminum baseball bat? Do clerical workers or truck drivers go [...]