Bob Thomas Writes

and writes, and writes

Humpty Dumpty

A Thought. . .   Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the King’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.     O.K., let’s look at this. First, who in the hell thought a horse could put an egg together? And especially ALL the […]

The Kiss

They lights came down. The movie started. I leaned towards her. I touched her arm. She smelled of the most wonderful fragrance. My senses, and my imagination, were running wild with a myriad of smells, emotions and prospects of an imagined love affair.   She was watching the movie and ignoring me.  We were sitting […]

I’ll just poke my eyes out!

Our local paper has awriter who is  so bad his writing makes my head hurt! So I wrote to the Editor and complained. He’s still there! The Free Press Kinston,NC Attn: Editor                     Dear Sir,  I have endured Jon Dawson for as long as I can without speaking up. The boy is just simply bad. His […]

Are You Santa?

Apparently I need to loose weight and shave my beard off! In the last few months I’ve been mistaken for Santa Claus one time too many! Usually by a child four or five years old. The first time I was sitting in a Donut Shop waiting for a meeting. As I sat reading the paper, […]

RANDOM THOUGHTS….

(At this time I owned a shop at the beach) JUNE 1996…. As I write this it suddenly occurred to me that I’m doing what everybody in the world wants to do….just as I damn well please ! Most of my life has been consumed with “making a living” or “making someone happy”, and, quite […]

LOVE

I often wonder why I love. Not especially you, but just love in general. I think it’s because love un-directed is not love. It must have a destination . . .  a focus . . . a ‘target’! To not be able to love someone is to not live a full life. Or even a […]

A Column!

People tell me I should write a column for a magazine.  Before I commit to supplying them with a collection of my patiently thought out words of wisdom, they are going to have to answer several mighty  important questions! First of all, how many words on a page? And, is it going to be a […]