I became a father at the tender age of 19 years old. When my daughter was first born, trumpets sounded and angels sang a sweet harmonious melody as my beautiful infant girl came into the world and changed my life forever. …

On my desk at home, where I spend most of my time during the week, there’s a stack of obituaries and funeral programs. There’s no unique display or organizational format that I follow that distinguishes them from the other books or piles of paper on my workstation. …

For as long as I can remember, I’ve liked girls. In fact, I remember the very first girl I ever had a crush on. …

In 2001, a year before I joined the Marines, I was only 22 with a two-year-old daughter and broke as shit. How broke you ask? So broke that me, my daughter’s mom, and my daughter lived together crammed in the basement of my mama’s split-level house. So broke, we used…

A couple of weeks ago, my father-in-law transitioned from this world into the mysterious place we all will eventually teleport to in the event of our inevitable demise. We all have our ideas of what or where that could be. Some might say Heaven (or Hell). Others may say some…

About two years ago before COVID variants wreaked havoc on the normalcy of life, I actually commuted to work daily. …

I’m about halfway thru a Christmas vacation filled with sleeping the entire morning, waking up at about noon, then marching down to the kitchen to prepare myself a nutritious “breakfast” of baked french fries & mini corn dogs. And I’m sure the image being projected into your head as you…

I was six years old when I saw the Super Bowl Shuffle on TV for the very first time. And there are two things I can remember from this experience: How amazing it was that a song could be so gawd damn awful, but yet, so awesome at the same…

My mama did the best she could raising and providing for three greedy and seemingly ungrateful ass kids. …