Category: Stories

Things that have happened to me, or that I made up…you decide…

Family General History Lies I tell

Wet Cement…

Today I saw workers pouring cement. I wanted to walk through it, but I didn’t… Take a look at this map. When I was five-years old I lived here (the house marked with the red circle and arrow): My family moved into this neighborhood in the late summer of 1980. I had celebrated my 5th […]

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Friends Stories

Orange Lilies…

Isn’t it strange how memory works? Certain sights, sounds, and smells (so, I’ve been told) can bring to mind things that never would have crossed someone’s mind in the course of a normal day. One of my memory triggers is seeing orange lilies growing along the side of a road.   Every time I pass […]

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Family History Stories

Throwing Things…

When I was about 11 years old, I used to hang out with a bunch of kids at a decrepit playground close to where we all lived on Fort Eustis, Virginia. The park was secluded in a grove of old trees, so there was always a dense layer of leaves and fallen branches on the […]

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News of the Weird Rants

The Stupid Leading the Blind…

There are a couple of very common sayings which reference blind people as a symbol of ignorance. There is the very common, “The blind leading the blind,” and then there is “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” Now, I am certain that it is universally understood that “blind” in these […]

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War Stories

BVD’s and Two Left Boots: Part Four

A third man walked up and stood between Easton and me. He began digging in a pile of clothes that I had assumed belonged to Easton. He began to cuss…it was quiet at first…then he searched the floor. He cussed louder and then looked left and right. Easton was ignoring him. I said, “Dude, what […]

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