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CHAPTER FIVE: Good Drivers

I was twelve years old and riding in the back seat of our family’s station wagon when somebody cut us off in traffic. My father hit the...

Oct 13, 2021

My father in law passed away last week. Yesterday we had his funeral in Asheville, and I had the honor of sharing my personal reflections...

Oct 6, 2021

I’ve noticed something funny about the names of minivans. Car makers often market them with names that connote a sense of movement or...

Oct 6, 2021

I saw Vacation in the movie theatre when it came out in 1983. Watching the Griswold family’s stumbling cross-country journey to Walley...

Sep 29, 2021

Twenty years went by very quickly after that first sonogram. During that time I learned some things about women that I didn’t know when I...

Sep 22, 2021

My wife is not the kind of person who is willing to be surprised. As a kid, she would sneak downstairs two weeks before Christmas in the...

Sep 15, 2021

One evening when my kids were still in grade school we were kicking the soccer ball around at Freedom Park waiting for practice to start....

Sep 8, 2021

The happy Matrix was a failure During his interrogation of Morpheus, Agent Smith reveals that the matrix against which Morpheus is...

Aug 25, 2021

Out on the links one morning I was agonizing over just how to hit my next shot. I was trying to figure out whether to risk a shot at the...

Aug 21, 2021