Some time ago, my oldest son did something that got him in big trouble.  He received stern discipline, and a few days later, he did it again. I called him […]

Note: I wrote this over a year ago (though it hasn’t been previously published). That’s why the ages are all wrong and I’m even balder now. Why haven’t I published […]

I’m bad at keeping up with trendy ideas. I only recently ran across an idea from 1898, written by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst in his still-respected book, The Painter in Oil: […]

There was a bad storm rolling, so we piled in the basement to wait it out. As far as I can remember, I was five, which means it was probably […]