In days long gone, the dinner table served as a gathering place for families.  It was the social gathering site where the day was recounted over a hot cooked meal,…

I had a birthday this past Thursday.  I turned 37.  Getting older means different things to different people.  Thirty-seven isn't a magic number by any means, to most people, but…

Dishwater Johnson is a guy everyone knows.  We see him everywhere.  In a McDonald's drive-thru paying with a hundred.  At a construction site with his hat on backwards.  In a…

I have a legitimate question.  Why can't food stains be pretty?  One day, you're sitting there minding your own business, eating a perfectly good chili burger and when you bring…

It's the new millennium and has been for quite a few years.  The definition of what constitutes a man is being rewritten on a daily basis.  Not only is he…

I'm beginning my Life 3.0 and this weekend was one of mile"stones" for me.  I bought a car, a 2004 Pontiac Aztek.  It's ugly, I know ... it's so ugly…

I pulled up to Becky's place in my Mustang and lightly tapped the horn, as she'd asked me to do.  I waited.  And waited.  The house wasn't in the best…

It's true.  The world's spelling acuity, and America's in particular, has suffered immensely due to one major reason.  The advent of the Internet.

This new medium has single-handedly opened…

I was talking with a friend the other day and he suddenly turned to me and said, "Do you smell that?"  My instinctive reaction was to say, "It wasn't me,"…

Okay, here's the deal:  My office was broken into over the 4th of July holiday.  My computer, my brand new Dell computer, was stolen along with all my personal stuff…