Category: Current Events

I don’t wish to sound dramatic, but I’ve recently had some health issues. I think the big stuff is behind me.  I went in for a cardiac catheterization a week ago and they put two stents in my system.  This whole experience started about six weeks ago.  I was feeling short of breath, got lightheaded …

In the fall of 1994, a new high school senior wanted to speak with me.  Her parents were divorced, and she had lived with her mom.  For reasons    unknown to me, that changed her senior year.  She moved in with her dad and stepmom.  Her grandfather was a businessman in town and well connected …

I was going to call this post Invincible but apparently I’m not so I’m going with Bill and Me.  It’s about my current events. This winter after I completed my audiobook, I decided to record some audio stories to post on my website.  I couldn’t just pull stories from my book because the publisher won’t …

I wrote this a year ago.  It popped up today and I can’t move it, so here’s a second look.   The Villages, Florida promotes itself as Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. Ruth and I bought our first home here in 2004. It was a patio villa that we owned for eighteen months. We bought a ranch …

A couple months ago BZ and I shared our books at The Villages’ Book Expo. We made a lot of plans beforehand. Much of what we thought would be true, turned out to be false. We had a lot of lookers but not a lot of buyers. BZ did meet the director of a children’s …

Tuesday is the six-month anniversary of my new shoulder. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll recall that my three kids came down, one at a time, to spend a week with me during the end of September and the first part of October. Since David came first, he and I went golfing one last …

My Grandma Tebo lived with us for a couple of years after Grandpa Tebo died.  The three things I remember most about her time with us were watching TV, going to church and baking. Her favorite television shows were Lawrence Welk, Gunsmoke and Paladin.  Paladin was really Have Gun Will Travel but she referred to …

A friend of mine gave me a book about story telling called The Science of Story Telling by Will Storr. To tell you the truth I seldom read everything that’s given to me, but I did find one observation offered early in the book to be very interesting. Some research suggests strangers read another’s thought …

My daughter, Elizabeth, turned forty-eight on Monday.  When we spoke on the phone, she told me that she was going to start telling people that she’s fifty. She told people she was forty-seven when she turned forty-six.  She was publicly forty-seven for two years, so it seemed liked she gained a year when she actually …

The entry below is the first thing I published online.  It’s an introduction to my blog.  I knew what I wanted to do, but I didn’t have a road map.  I still don’t.  I write a bit each day and post twice a week.  This is my seven hundred and sixty-third story. A Very Little …