Dad

In the Looney Tunes cartoons we watched on Saturday mornings when I was a kid, there was a recurring gag where there was too much stuff…

In high school, I worked at a grocery store after school. I worked from 4 to closing (which was 8 PM) during the week, and usually…

Her name was Betty, and how exactly we were kin is a long story that involves marriages, divorces, widows, and time, but it’s far easier to…

It was sometime in the first week of August of 1990, and I was a guest of the Commandant of the Marine Corps, on a small…

My favorite story my Dad ever told me: Once upon a time, there was a baby bird, sitting in the nest. And like most baby birds,…