Knock on Wood On December 20, 1980, nineteen-year-old Jean Hilliard was returning to her parents’ home in Lengby, Minnesota. She was driving through rural northwestern Minnesota after visiting friends. Hilliard had started home around midnight,…
Crazy Cousin C Creeps in Coronavirus-19 was first detected in the United States on January 20, 2020. It was brought in by a U.S. citizen returning from a trip to Wuhan, China, to his home…
Three Men and Baby Fans of the motion picture, Three Men and a Baby, which came out in 1987 and starred Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, and Nancy Travis may be disappointed to find…
Bubba J’s Christmas Back on April 19 of this year, I shared my friend, Bubba J’s Coronavirus Journal with my readers. Well, I crossed paths with Bubba J. again last week at Wal-Mart. We talked…
Muy Logos Annie and I were driving back from Georgia last weekend, where we had celebrated our grandson, Richard’s, sixth birthday. As we cruised along the highway, we listened to an audiobook by Dan Brown,…
The First, the Original As a kid growing up in the little country town of Malden, Missouri, I was expected to work for my privileges. At the minimum I had to mow our lawn and…
Criminal Minds I have long been of the opinion that criminals are not necessarily among the smartest segment of our society. Maybe it is simply that the more intelligent criminals are too smart to get…
The Greatest Hero You’ve Never Heard Of Many of us, even those who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, don’t know how serious those times were, and certainly don’t know how close the United States…
The Shocking True Story of Eduardo Garcia We all have times in our lives when it just seems like one thing goes wrong after another. We recently went through a period when our oven stopped…
Change the Statistics I was heading to work this morning with good things on my mind, when I almost became a statistic…again. —————————————— Patrick and Christa were at our house getting ready for their imminent…
