Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
Forty years ago, after graduating high school, I worked diligently at playing slow-pitch softball. It was something I wanted and wasn’t afraid to do. Slow-pitch softball was my sub-culture of choice. Some people like to ride motorcycles, some collect Hummel figurines, but I enjoyed taking the boring game of baseball and dummying it down by … Read more
When I was in high scholl, once both my brothers had moved out to college and beyond, my father wanted to save money in the winter and closed off our attic bedroom. I slept on the pull-out couch in the “TV” room, which was next to my parents’ bedroom. The house was a two-bedroom bungalow … Read more
Did you ever have a life-plan that changed radically? Like you thought for sure things were going to take you to the north, but then something happened and you had to turn south? Last week, two events converged and forced me to consider one of the major life-changing incidents in my life. In the resulting … Read more
A few weeks ago, I did something shameful. A door-to-door salesman knocked on the door, triggering our dogs, who barked wildly. I slipped out the front door and found a lanky young man, probably younger than my son, dressed as if he were going golfing. He was selling insecticide treatments. They spray around your house … Read more