Thursdays are my busiest days. It really distracts my flow of thought when people call me on Thursdays for the most trivial of reasons. So it really bothered me when Tonka and Tinker were unusually noisy today. Our corgis were in a Thursday barking mood. The slightest sound, would trigger one to yip! and the other would yap! and the cycle would continue forever. If I grow deaf early I will blame them.

t's been a while since I've had so many deep conversations with so many people in disconnected settings. It's the season I guess. Late October seems to do that all the time. Next week promises to be just as busy --- I'm meeting with an old friend from Australia whom I haven't seen in 20 years. I'm meeting with 2 of my neighbors for a small business opportunity. Then I will be starting a Bible study with a group of young men who are in career limbo. At the end of the week I will be practicing with a new set of musicians.

A commander walks into a bar and orders everyone around.

"Dad are we pyromaniacs?" "Yes, we arson."

I’m a travel writer. Words are what I do. My stories may not always sing but I usually can put one word in front of another succinctly enough to craft a quasi-well-written article. But when I heard about the newly opened Planet Word in Washington, D.C., I was so excited, I had no words.

The other day I was thinking of a non-existent color.

You're an extreme redneck when... 1) You let your 14-year old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.

I snowed last night, so this morning... 8:00 am: I made a snowman.

"Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?" - Benny Hill

Don't let them take the temperature on your forehead as you enter the supermarket.