For those of you who aren't me…and I've noticed a surprisingly large number of people who aren't.
One thing everyone is encouraged to do is summer reading. Where I live, it was almost a requirement. From the tender age of five my elementary school passed out pamphlets promoting summer reading starting in January. Yep, there we were in kindergarten, almost aware of how words went together, and our teachers wanted us to …
Why wasn’t I informed of this earlier? Could it be a government conspiracy? Information like this needs to be available for public viewing, not hidden away for the elite few. We are talking serious money here and inquiring minds want to know. Knowledge like this can’t be held back in a top-secret file somewhere like …
Every once in a while, I like to log into the website of my neighborhood cinema, and check out all the movies that I’m not going to see. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching an epic film on the big screen. The experience is wonderful. The thing I love most is a surprise ending, …
Continue reading Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust And 50 Million In Special Effects
I don’t want to brag, but I’ve been to every one of the forty-eight contiguous United States. I actually lived in five of them for more than a year. I know some of you are, right now, giving a collective “WOW!” Sadly, many more of you are calling out, “Who cares?” You should care. I …
Sometimes, I long for the good old days when you drank iced-tea on the back porch, and read a book to the smell of charcoal just starting to burn. In those days you could smile at your neighbor, and think about how congress was getting things done without gridlock before the eleventh hour. Oh Wait! …
Does anybody know the statute of limitations on robbing a bank? I could say I’m asking for a friend, but that would be a lie. You see, I robbed a bank once. Before you start dialing Crime Stoppers looking for the five-thousand-reward, you should know that I didn’t do it on purpose. In point of …
Netflix and Hulu started an amazing thing. By allowing us to stream anything we want, the viewing audience has now broken up into many fragments. Gone are the days of having to play a board game because the president was on all three networks. Now there so much entertainment available that the word TV Station …
Oh Joy! It’s summer and we get to go to family picnics again. I just can’t wait for that first tasty bite of some mayonnaise laden macaroni concoction, especially after it’s be sitting in the ninety-degree sun for two to three hours. I mean, I haven’t had food poisoning in almost mine months now. If …
Spring has sprung. The grass is riz. I wonders where the flowers is. My mother, from the back woods, taught me this little poem oh so many years ago. It is of course far from the truth. A college educated man of the world, like myself, knows exactly where the flowers is. Or, are as …
Continue reading Spring; A Time For Baseball, Flowers, And Insurance
War Is Heck! Yes, I said Heck, and I’m proud of it. Some things have to be said without the sugarcoating of a decent society. I sit here in the relative peace between battles like a modern-day Gomer Pyle. Or was that Ernie Pyle? Standing on the front lines, looking into the eyes of the …
Mr. Ohh!'s Sideways View 