The greatest advancement for modern man is the appreciation of the sexiness of dad bods. Face it, not many of us are going to discover our inner Chris “Thor” Hemsworth beneath all our layers of daddliness. Instead of “six-pack” abs, most of us sprout bellies sculpted more along the ...
Big Jim poked at the campfire. “Reckon we’ll get these cattle to the stockyard in two, three days.” Buck nodded. “S’long as we stay ahead of them rustlers. Ain’t enough of us to hold off them bandits.” Ol’ Cheyenne squinted at the dark horizon. “Somethin’s out there, ...
“The problem ain’t what people know. It’s what people know that ain’t so that’s the problem.” So said Will Rogers, the humorist and cowboy philosopher from the 1920s and ’30s who poked fun at human nature and politicians all while famously maintaining, “I never met a man I ...
It was 1970 and I’d just come home with my new paperback, “King of the Grizzlies,” a 50-cent treasure from my Scholastic Book Club order. “Stash it in the camper for the trip,” Mom ordered. I couldn’t wait for vacation to begin so that I could dig into the mess of books Mom ...
Terry downed her night meds, fussed with the blankets and swapped out pillows. I rolled onto my other side, an effort that involved more oofing, groaning and wriggling than used to happen during an entire backyard football game. Soon, we’d be sleeping like babies — which is to say, ...
My office walls are bare. I’m searching for a life philosophy that I can hang as a motivational poster — minus the motivation. I don’t want to be nagged into actually accomplishing something. After studying the wisdom of the great philosophers, I’ve narrowed it down to these: ...
