Recently I did the downright idiotic. To prove that my vim and vigor needle wasn’t on empty, I took a tent camping trip with my wife and 8-year-old daughter to Myrtle Beach State Park, in the state of South Carolina (America’s arsenal of cheap fireworks). The true idiocy can be found in the fact that […]
Take it from someone who’s in her mid-twenties: there isn’t enough information about the “quarter-life” crisis. It’s an enigma of a phenomenon and sometimes it feels more like a disease. This may sound depressing, but never fear: At least diseases have symptoms and many even have cures. I think one of the best things you […]
I had just finished feeding my herd of goats when I heard that familiar roar of a 70’s muscle car. The car was kicking up so much dust that the Zombies living in my woods started coughing. You know they do have a tendency to get allergies in the summer and I could never find […]
Life, with a capital L, along with living, learning, laughing and loving is ageless. Think about it if you will. Referring to such thoughts, there’s an “Adults Only” story to be told. To the adolescent I say, “Wait! You’re too young to peek into this passionate situation. You’ll learn in due time.” The scene opens […]
Thirty six hours had passed since I said goodbye to my homeland and to everything familiar. In just a few minutes, I would be stepping out on top of the world. I had already gotten a birdseye view of the mighty Himalayas and my weariness had now given way to overwhelming excitement as I prepared […]
Behold the old limerick’s a rhymeWhose humor has lasted in timeJust five lines of neat verseWhether clean or quite worseRidiculous to the sublime To a vacationing writer named ScottHere’s my entry to throw in the potYour theme got to meFirst names with an EHere they come Scott, like them or not There was an old […]
Do you ever watch WWII era movies? You know, the ones in which the star, members of the supporting cast or maybe both, wear the uniform of armed services? Do you notice the patches they wear on the shoulder of their uniform? The patches were only incidental to the story line of the movies, but […]
It was Biker Week 2008 and the Karaoke Korner was rapidly becoming a bad place to be. My two Chinese companions were loudly discussing the merits of Barack Obama and I could tell that we were losing all of the good will I’d curried with the local wildlife after my rendition of the Coe classic, […]
“Yum, yum. This is so good. Are you gonna eat yours?” “Yes,” she said as she protected her Wal-Mart Yeast Roll with a wave of her fist. Now my wife is not a violent woman, but I think she would go to any means to protect that taste of high school. In all my years […]
Writing has always been one of my favorite pastimes. As an English major at my university, I always tried to do my best to demonstrate that I was an intelligent person who could think creatively on many subjects. To me, assignments such as essays were neither taxing nor dreaded. On the contrary, the challenge excited […]