Archive for December, 2006

#29 License to … Stroll?

  My son was involved in an accident last week. Yes, he was driving. No, he doesn’t have a license. Yes, he was on a cell phone at the time. No, he’s not in trouble. The other driver was on a cell phone, too. The only damage was a couple of broken eggs. They were [...]

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#28 Cleaning The Fridge

  When my wife said it was time to clean the fridge, I considered running away to join the circus as the new assistant for Lefty the Lion Tamer, or maybe the French Foreign Legion, or something really extreme like the Boy Scouts. It’s not the contents of the fridge which terrify me. Sure, the [...]

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#27 Civic Planning

  Like a lot of small towns in America, my little village of Nowell-by-the-Sea was a poorly planned accident. The only difference is that the buildings average about eight inches in height. The accident started when my wife sent me to a department store in November and I happened to find that they had their [...]

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#26 Get Lost

  Modern man has trouble keeping up with technology. Then again, modern man gets lost easily. For that matter ancient man, medieval man, renaissance man, industrial man — and pretty men throughout all of history — got lost easily. Getting lost is a guy’s right — a privilege of manhood. Of course, no guy will [...]

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