By O.Kay Jackson Without a thought you leap lightly from the back of the pickup truck, until one day you pause, ponder the jump, decide you might hurt an ankle or a knee – and you climb down instead. Head’s up – you’re now old. We all know, barring an untimely accident or bad […]
This is long, sorry! MY LIFE… (THE MOST RECENT VERSION!) According to the tales I’ve heard around the campfire, I was born in 1943…January 23 to be exact. It’s told that my Mother was a sucker for a man in uniform, and my Dad had just finished his shift as a bus driver […]
With All Due RespectBy Fred Reed I sometimes think the country is being divided into two groups. The first, and much smaller, is those who read widely and know much, who are refined and live in a wider world than the merely present. The second is those who received high grades without understanding that they […]
The Secret of Life Thanks to James Taylor for the lyrics The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. Any fool can do it. There ain’t nothing to it. Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill. But since we’re on our way down, We might as well enjoy […]
“Happy New Year” – a greeting I’ve heard 69 times in my life. You know, time has a way of moving too quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems only yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, […]
The Most Important Time in Your Life Is Right Now. Right Now! It’s Not Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday, Or Somewhere in the Future. It Is Here. . . Now… You Have to Make this Moment be What You Want it to Be. You Have to Take from this Moment What You Wish to Save. You Have […]
True Happiness True happiness can’t be won. It can’t even be searched for, only realized. It can’t be taken, only given. Seek, and ye shall never find! Allow, and reap the rewards
Days will pass without our having anything to do with them. We can ignore, enjoy, or participate in the passing of time, But we don’t have to do anything . . . Unless we wish to remember those days. Then, if we do, we have to make them memorable. We have to turn down the […]
Johnny never wanted to go duck hunting, but his Dad said that he had too. He was, after all, 16 years old now, and everybody knew that all 16 year olds in Alabama were hunters. As they tramped through the woods, Johnny grew more and more apprehensive about the whole thing. He didn’t have any […]