Word of the day: Light “I thought you turned the light off in the dining room before coming to bed.” Leslie engaged in her pre-bedtime...

Word of the day: Rescue Maybe this chair wasn’t the best purchase after all, Leslie thought. The fabric she originally picked to refinish...

Word of the day: Disaster Leslie admired the corner chair that now sat in the middle of their garage while Marty thumbed through a comic...

Word of the day: Joke The chair was upstairs with some other ragged furniture that folks had discarded. It stood out among the other...

Word for the day: Desolate I survey the landscape seeking what now is most certainly lost. What once looked so familiar has become a...

Word of the day: Windmill This is an excerpt from a work-in-progress I've been working on for about a year. It's not quite a sequel to my...

Word of the day: Vault Her heart is a vault Concrete, steel reinforced walls Impenetrable Her heart is a safe Guarded, secure, locked up...

Word of the Day: Snake I grew up in a small valley surrounded by woods. Our little house sat down about a mile and a half of dirt road....

30. "Lonesome Loser," Little River Band The hallways were splattered one day with fliers, which was nothing new per se. Fliers filled the...

Missouri Route 53 is a two-lane state highway that connects to the southeast corner of Poplar Bluff and winds through some cotton and...

40. "Sara," Fleetwood Mac I rode the bus to school every morning and most afternoons. Not exactly my preferred mode of transportation....

50. "Refugee," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Elementary school lunch was simple, manageable. I joined my friends, opened my lunchbox,...

60. "Fire Lake," Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Monday mornings at school were spent catching up on the weekend's activities. Some...

70. "Daydream Believer," Anne Murray I was a daydreamer. The imaginary world held more interest to me than reality, which seemed overly...

80. "When I'm With You I'm Born Again," Billy Preston & Syreeta The details of the exact moment I decided to express my feeling for Molly...

90. "Here Comes My Girl," Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers I found my 7th grade yearbook to search old photos, reminisce a little, get ideas...

I started junior high in the fall of 1979. The average American income was $17,500. A gallon of gas was 86 cents and a new home would run...

Later this year, COVID-19 willing, my high school graduation class will celebrate its 35th anniversary reunion. My hope is to attend this...

I've been working on the sequel to Kilroy Was Here for about three years now. Progress comes in fits and starts. I've produced quite a...

On Thursday, February 20th, I consumed the finale of Breaking Bad, one of the most brilliant episodic series in the history of...