Sunday Afternoon Stories

 Good morning everyone, and when I say everyone, I mean all 15 of you. The ground is wet and muddy this morning, which means I'm going to have to be a little careful when I take the dog out walking in a little bit. This used to be her walking time, but the days are starting to get shorter and it's still too dark to go traipsing around in the country. I suppose you all have noticed that it has been a week or two since I last posted. Ironically enough, it was a posting on discipline and how I needed to work on the things I needed to work on. So then I went on a vacation. Then getting back from a vacation is crazy because everything has turned to shit in my absence. (That isn't really true, but we all have to act that way when we get back to work, otherwise the bosses might think they can do without us. It's an old sitcom gag, you can look it up.) So, I'm back into the swing of things and there's actually a lot that has been going on that I'm looking forward to...

 Hello everyone! I know you can't tell, but it took me three times up above to get hello spelled right. Sometimes the fingers don't work with the mind as well as they should. In short, though, I'm a little out of practice in the whole writing thing. There was a time that every day was spent writing something. Now, not so much. I'm trying to get back in the habit, but find myself drifting away. A lot of times reading a book is a lot more interesting than writing a book, especially when it feels like no one really cares if I write one or not. That's sort of a defeatist attitude and actually not at all why I write. Over the past couple of years, however, I've let life take me away from something I enjoy and that gives my miserable little life a little meaning beyond going to work and paying the bills. Back in the newspaperman days, the sports reporter and me would make fun of anyone who would claim writer's block as an excuse for not writing. At that time, we d...

 Good morning! For regular followers - and by the numbers I see that is about eight of you - I apologize for not posting anything in the past couple of days. I've been pretty busy with other stuff. You know? Life and work and shit. But now there is a calm in the storm. That's not exactly true. In facet, it has been storming a lot lately, and we are talking about literal storms. For the past month I don't think we've had more than two days without rain in the forecast. We've had all the Forrest Gump types of rain - sideways, fat drops, drizzle, downpours - we've seen it all. It's to the point where there is actual green on my property. After further investigation, I discovered there are actual plants growing. I mean they are really growing. It's to the point where the front spread is starting to look better than many New Mexico golf courses. I know there are many of my friends who see all this growth as something to be happy about. You are wrong. Perhaps ...