Adam and Eve is the first recorded story of boy meets girl, at least in the Bible. As far as I know, Adam didn't use a dating app. The story I got says his Maker started out with a parade of animals, hoping the boy would take one of them as a pet, each one… Continue reading Boy Meets Girl–1908 Version

My mama poured as much or more love into her fried chicken as she did Crisco lard. And you can be sure as she started to get her big cast-iron skillet ready for the fried chicken, she'd scoop out big serving spoon size portions of Crisco. So, needless to say, there was a lot of… Continue reading Mama’s Fried Chicken

My great-grandmother lived to be a very old woman, eighty-nine years old in fact, but that long life was only because of a few precious minutes fifty years earlier. Those minutes made the difference between her having fifty more years on earth or her dying prematurely as a woman in the prime of life. I… Continue reading In the Nick of Time

As a boy more inclined to the indoors than to the outdoors, I grew up on Alfred Hitchcock movies. I'm not sure what effect the movies had on me. Maybe my clear sense that bad things can happen to good people had its nascence in those creepy Hitchcock movies, such as The Birds or Rebecca.… Continue reading The North Window

These days Groom, Texas has about 500 people who call it home. I don't know if the population has changed or not over the years. Maybe. Like other little towns in Texas, it's always easier to tell you what big city it is near. Groom is 42 miles east of Amarillo. For example, many small… Continue reading The Groom People