Look at the mistakes they make, not using their blinker. Look at the risks they take, weaving in and out of traffic. Look at how fast they go, ignoring the posted speed limit. Look … just look at them as they insert their contact lenses.

Three steps

3/26/17

The lever rose with a weighted slowness as he took three steps forwards, his arms above his head, pushing the lever upwards. And stopped.

He took three steps back. The lever descended, smoothly, his hands arresting its fall.

No one knew its weight; it was heavy, like a fallen tree; too thick for a grown man to wrap his arms ( Read more... )

"After a few months in a cast, he was once again bounding around the farm with no cares for any danger."

To be more existential about it, the older I get, the more aware I am of the time I have available. I’m only going to have a finite number of weekends in the future, and I don’t know how many that will be, even. Sometimes, time isn’t so much precious as it is terrifying, especially with the faster it tends to pass with every minute that goes by - ( Read more... )

“Holy crap I just puncture the roof of my mouth ..."

"Apparently, we were tripped up by our lack of strength and inability to extract the teeth from the jawbone."

I point out it’s difficult to believe baby oil is just mineral oil with artificial baby flavoring.

I've had writer's block for all of 2016. I haven't written a column all year. I've been sending off old ones to the newspaper that they haven't ran before, but I'm out of them now ( Read more... )

My point being, if one tries to analyze a personality based upon favorite smells, it gets weird.

Everyone knows loss. Even though this was written for my own, I hope that what follows can also help anyone else dealing with theirs, as well.