People are strange animals. We like routine more than anything. Shake up our comfort zone and we aren’t sure what to do. Take this virus scare we’re facing now. Folks are panicking over toilet paper. I’m like, Really? Okay. Let me plead ignorance about what’s going on. I drive trucks for a living…18-wheelers. I don’t… Continue reading Change is Inevitable
Category: Humor
I had My Head Examined
My life has been in transition since my wife left me over seven years ago now. It’s about to take another shift…sort of. Yeah, nothing is clear and concise in my life. Let me explain. I’ve been driving for a temp agency for the past five years with the hope that the writing will take… Continue reading I had My Head Examined
The Vacation that Won’t End
I haven’t had a true vacation in over a decade. To say my life has been challenging would be an understatement. Well, I’m trying to complete said overdue vacation, but it doesn’t seem to want to end. Apparently my life is afraid it will be another decade before I take similar time away from the… Continue reading The Vacation that Won’t End
Half Done But Not Over
Okay. Here’s the fact. 2019 is officially half completed. How are those New Years resolutions coming along? What do you mean you don’t even remember what they were? Why did you ever bother making them in the first place if they weren’t really that important to you to begin with? I guess that’s a mute… Continue reading Half Done But Not Over
What Was That?
Driving hazards are common. Some are avoidable. Some…not so much. I see pieces of tires strewn across the road everywhere I drive. My heart goes out to the driver of that event because I’ve been there. Well, I was there this week, too. Yeah, I was responsible for some of that rubber carnage on I-40… Continue reading What Was That?
You Think I’d Learn
Thunderstorms are interesting events. They can be enthralling, dangerous and frightening at the same time. After driving through a massive one about a week ago you think I’d know better than to flirt with disaster again, but I did…only without the safety of setting on rubber tires to insulate me from electrical execution. One of… Continue reading You Think I’d Learn
I Just Knew It
Last week was a bit of a roller coaster ride for this truck driver turned writer. My writer side received the high point award while I delivered mattresses in Longview, Texas on Wednesday. Discount Mattress quickly became one of my favorite stops before this past week. It’s a family run operation…a mother-in-law daughter-in-law arrangement mostly.… Continue reading I Just Knew It
It Was Bound to Happen
Spring has always been my favorite season. The deadness of winter is shaken off and new growth appears. As I’m writing this many of the fruit trees resemble popcorn bushes on steroids. The redbud trees are loaded with their purple blooms. I know that doesn’t make sense. I didn’t name them. I’m simply tellin’ y’all… Continue reading It Was Bound to Happen
My First Flight
Do you remember the first time you flew in an airplane? I do like it was yesterday. Mostly because as I’m writing this on August 26, 2018 it was just yesterday I first defied gravity commercially. That’s right. It took until I’m 57 years of age before I actually flew. I knew I’d enjoy the… Continue reading My First Flight
How To Choose
I have an assignment that I cared to accept. It’s deciding the winners of a scholarship given out by my church. One scholarship goes to a senior guy. Another goes to a senior gal. There were only four guys who filled out an application this year. Twice as many as last year. Ten young women… Continue reading How To Choose