Team Salamander

Last night, on my way home from work, I was making a right hand turn onto a four lane highway. The light had just turned green, and while I wasn’t “jumping the light”, neither was I allowing more than a split second elapse from the time the light turned green until the time my right…

Which Brady Bunch kid are you most like? I think I’m beginning to get disgusted with myself.

Lunch table conversation: “Hey Booker! You’ll never guess who spoke at my church yesterday!” “You got me, Pookey. Who?” “We had a lady give the sermon! Nobody showed up!” “Didn’t your church vote against that years ago? I remember you talking about that.” “I don’t know why they have to change things like this. It’s…

I knew things were moving along a little too well. Yuppers, folks. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the walled, paved ex-garden, the floor falls out from beneath you … literally, in this case. Last night we had rain. It probably amounted to about an eighth of an inch of…

… said Eeyore gloomily. -“So it is.” “And freezing.” -“Is it?” “Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.” At least we still have power at the halfway point. I walked out to the primary road in front of my house a few hours ago and snapped…

Today is December 1st. My father, were he still alive, would have been 82 today. When my mother had to be placed into an assisted care facility five years ago, it fell to my sisters and myself to clean out the house she and my father had built with their own two hands in the…