Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
I’ve always been a sucker for get-rich quicks schemes. I’ve never fallen for a brazen pyramid scheme but I have nothing against them. It’s just that I want to get in early enough so I can score and get out while the getting’s good. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that I’m a sucker for … Read more
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
I went canoeing with my wife over the weekend. We want to canoe more often but we’re not really canoe people. It came up repeatedly during the summer: “We could go canoeing…” But there was always something else going on, some “thing,” just enough distraction to keep us away from the canoe place on the … Read more
Last Picayune, I told the story of how my father put me, a 12-year old kid, up for a fight with a couple of bullies. When I looked it over the next day, it seemed a little harsh. I should have added that he didn’t do anything to taunt me or embarrass me after that … Read more