Remember old man Higgins from down the block (not sure why you would…)? Everybody said he had two left feet when it came to dancing – that his stiff personality was a roadblock. But one Saturday night at the town square dance, something shifted. He wasn’t trying to be anybody else; he was just being […]

Alright now, let me tell you a little story about my own son. When he was about nine years old, I decided we’d build that birdhouse he’d been pestering me about. Now, in my mind, this was a simple afternoon of sawdust and smiles. In reality, it turned into an impromptu physics lesson on why […]

I remember the day I hired young Billy to stock shelves at my old hardware store. The boy was bright-eyed and eager, full of ambition to “climb the ladder.” He saw his starting wage as a pit stop on the way to the corner office. One afternoon, I found him staring at a jar of […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one! I was down at the hardware store one fine afternoon when Mrs. Gable came rushing in, face as red as a ripe tomato. She was clutching her head with both hands and said, “Bojangles! My boy Bobby, bless his heart, just superglued the family cat to the living […]