A younger man at Bible study said "my current wife." Before I could stop myself, I corrected him. On being one of the old guys at the table.
The Shelf
Every movie I can quote by heart is about somebody being redeemed. I've never seen the one with Redemption in the title. A quiz, two lists, and a collection I hadn't checked.
Nobody Earns the Bag
My 18-year-old son took a candy bag at a parade and came home with a couple of pounds. What it taught me about asking people to buy my work.
The Second Bar
Getting your work to market is the first bar. At a street festival I watched my chiropractor clear the second one, and saw what I'd been skipping.
Even Further Down the Road
I wrote these lines at twenty years down the road and posted them again at twenty-four. Here they are at twenty-eight, after a normal Saturday that was anything but.





