The Bad News About Butch
Sensing danger is a survival skill. If you have it, you may live long. If not, well… I guess you aren’t reading this. Years ago before we were married, Carrie and I went to a…
Shooting Water Through My Teeth
I wanted a bike for my birthday. I was six years old and had long left the three wheel world of biking. But my only experience on two wheels was limited and I had not…
Highschool Rivalries at the Cub’s Game
I must admit up front, I’m not a huge baseball fan. I have friends and family members that are religious to the sport. It’s just a little slow for me. I do like the excitement…
Stutter Thy Not
I like when life teaches me a lesson. It’s even better when I learn it from someone I know, someone I love. Here’s a little story that I think is worth the read. For a…
No Longer On Top of the Food Chain
Like so many times in my life, I suddenly found myself out of work and looking for another job. It wasn’t that I was a bad employee, quite the opposite. I was a hard worker…
Dangerous Road Tricks & Bad Decisions
Growing up in Indiana was fun. But the hardest thing to do before we were old enough, was how to secure beer for the upcoming Friday night. Fortunately, we were quite clever and adaptive. There…
Competitive Blood Donors
I bet you didn’t know this about me. I once was a competitive blood donor. Let’s unpack this one together… O-Negative. That’s my blood type. In the blood business that kind of makes me a…
Uncle Johnny Makes a Few Bucks
I got cousins out there somewhere in the wild that may or may not know this story. But it has to be told. My Uncle Johnny made a few dollars on my dad. I’m not…
Have You Ever Been Afraid of a Six Year Old?
Have you ever been afraid of a six year old boy? I have. It was a Saturday morning of shopping and hopefully a nice lunch out. We found ourselves in Schaumburg, Illinois in and around…
Getting Expelled in College
I’ll spare you the suspense, I didn’t get expelled in college, but I did get very close to it. It’s 1984 and I’m in the junior year of my Bachelor’s Computer Science program at Purdue…