Book Review: 100 years: Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of your Life by Joshua Prager
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Book Review: 100 years: Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of your Life by Joshua Prager

100 Years: Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of your Life by Joshua Prager My rating: 5 of 5 stars Imagine if you could ask the most famous authors in the world their views on your age today. What would they say? Better yet, what advice could they give you as you enter your…

Keep on Trucking
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Keep on Trucking

Every Thursday night our local Wendy’s donates their lot space to a classic car show. The guys (and it’s always the guys) arrive in the early afternoon, bring out their dust rags and start polishing ol’ Betsy for the show. Most of these vehicles get driven oh, fifty miles a month, back and forth to…

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I’m turning into my mother-in-law

Some women have a worry of turning into their mother, especially during stressful times. I have found through a quirk of fate that I think I’m turning into my mother-in-law instead! She was a simple, though intelligent woman who died many years ago, a traditional homemaker who raised a large family in the 40s and 50s and…

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The day Miss McNuttle took her clothes off

I went to high school a long time ago, but I still remember Miss McNuttle. She taught Latin, both Latin I and Latin II, and Senior Honors English. Miss McNuttle was the prototypical spinster, back in those days when there still were spinsters: thick rimmed glasses, gray hair back in a bun, hospital shoes. We used…