Tough, Even for a Marine
Tough, Even for a Marine As a former Marine one of the many things I am proud of is that Marines are famous for being tough. We’re talking “whip their weight in wildcats”…
July 2018
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 4
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 4 Mornings during Girls Week are usually the quietest, most peaceful part of the day. I rolled out of my comfortable bed and walked into the…
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 3
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 3 In Part 3 our number is reduced by one…but we manage to continue the fun, and the Girly Girls realize the itchy problem with blackberry…
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 2
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 2 In Part 2 of the continuing saga of Girls Week, I find out that Annie is not a Barbie girl; a dog gets a new…
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 1
Butterpup and the Girly Girls – Part 1 What do a sprained ankle, a twisted knee, a chigger infestation, a dog with a new name, and a broken toilet have in common? They…
Of All the Luck
Of All the Luck Back in the days before memes and emails and the internet…heck, even before home computers, there were photocopies of cute or funny things that people passed around. They were…
Happy Trails
Happy Trails Some of my best and oldest memories are of being glued to the screen of our old black and white TV. With only two channels there wasn’t much room for the dozens…
The Land of the Free
The Land of the Free Every year about this time beer sales in the United States rise to reach their peak for the year. That shouldn’t come as a surprise since, over the Fourth…
Biker Jerks
Biker Jerks I almost killed a guy the other day. I really don’t want to kill anybody but it has occurred to me that this guy will probably end up dead by somebody else’s…