Tennessee Tornadoes – - or “The day I almost had to lie in a ditch”

The bizarre can descend upon a seemingly normal day like Joaquin Phoenix on a late night talk show – – rambling and unexpected from the wings of the afternoon’s stage, suddenly obliterating the careful script you’d written for your activities into a million pieces. And so began my afternoon last Friday when I was driving [...]

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Twisted Twister

As winter transitions into spring here in the Southland, you see people dusting off their flip-flops to wear on feet attached to blindingly white legs that are making their debut appearance this season. We begin to see more and more days that are warm and, thus, people begin to slowly hang the turtle necks toward [...]

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Not-so-happy-fun-times with SNAKES…

I’ve mentioned here before that I was once afraid to fly, but what I didn’t mention was that I am also afraid of snakes. However, given that I don’t come face-to-face with many…you know… cobras on a day-to-day basis, I haven’t been as concerned about overcoming THIS fear like the fear of flying. It just [...]

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And then…one day…I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane…

To say that I was once afraid to fly, would be like saying that Hurricane Katrina was actually just a few small tufts of gray clouds containing a smattering of showers. I was, in short, petrified of flying. I was in my mid-twenties, and I still FLEW, mind you….but I got onto an airplane, literally, [...]

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