Processed American cheese. Who knows what it’s made of, but it comes in convenient, individually-wrapped slices. It passes for cheese and it’s edible. What more could you want? I watched 10 minutes of a presidential debate, but I probably didn’t even need to watch that. No sooner had it ended than I was “assaulted” by…
Pop Warner is a name associated with youth football throughout the United States. Many, if not most, high school, college and professional football players got their start in a Pop Warner football program. A former lawyer, Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner was a head coach for 44 years, leading schools such as Iowa State, Cornell, Pitt,…
A man shared the following recurring dream: I am at my parent’s house. It is the mansion they owned after my mother inherited a lot of money, but before my step-father gambled most of it away. I used to live in the former chauffeur’s house on the property. There was also a separate servants’ quarters.…
Danny was a basketball prodigy. He was tall, athletic, and had a natural passion for the game. He played on school and community teams where he honed his skills and outplayed his opponents. Danny knew he was good and saw basketball as his ticket through school and perhaps life. When it came to his classes,…
We have a 17 year-old cat by the name of Mitzi. In the past couple of years she has developed the annoying behavior of meowing very loudly. Perhaps it wouldn’t be so annoying if we knew what it is she is trying to communicate. We explore the probable causes: she is hungry; she wants to…
Are you familiar with grafted plants? Nowadays most cultivated roses, fruit and ornamental trees have been grafted. In grafting, a horticulturist attaches the trunk of a preferred plant variety—say an especially beautiful rose—to the rootstock of a wild and more vigorous plant of the same species. The resulting plant carries the best characteristics of both…
In the Indiana Jones film, “The Last Crusade,” Dr. Jones must choose from a number of chalices the one used by Jesus at the last supper. This chalice, the Holy Grail, gives God’s grace and healing to everyone that drinks from it. Dr. Jones must choose the correct one if he is to heal a…
Bizarre skid marks on morning pavement, greet me on my way to work. Bent guard rail and black scuffed curbs, all the shadow’s handiwork. Night time can be a dangerous time. “Nothing good happens after 10:00 p.m.,” say those who would know. The sun goes down and consciousness wanes. The shadow comes out to…
My neighbor’s black and white cat, Beanie, knows no boundaries, at least not the ones we humans adhere to such as property lines, private home space and things like that. She climbs over fences without a care, enters a garage if the door is left open, or drinks out of the backyard birdbath. She is…
There is a chair on interstate 580 South, between Reno and Carson City, Nevada. I know because I passed it this morning on the way to work. It is a large, used, fabric lounge chair sitting by the concrete guard wall of the highway. You could sit in it and comfortably watch cars speed by.…