Ducks with a Death Wish?
Although our men are tied to the daily demands of their farms right now, irrigating and tending to growing crops, they can still dream. Those rare summer showers that are few and far between will find them planning and preparing for their favorite time of the year—hunting season. Any spare time is spent sighting their guns and trying to find the perfect hunting lease. Unless, of
A Colonel by Any Other Name
Colonel Davis looks like he stepped right out of the Old South; picture him as a cross between Mark Twain and Colonel Sanders. He has retired from the oil business after a long and successful career. Now he divides his time between the golf course and the coffee shop, where you can generally find him charming all the widow women. I found him there yesterday
What Size Was That, Sir?
My friend was in the dressing room of a department store trying to find a bathing suit for the summer. She’d been there a while and things were looking bleak when she heard a woman giggle from another stall. My friend gave her bonus points for managing to retain her sense of humor. “I don’t feel much like chuckling,” she thought to herself as she
Show Over!
Many years ago, an old woman prospector shuffled into a dusty Texas town leading a tired old mule. In dire need of supplies, she headed straight for the general store for supplies. Once there, she tied up her old mule and reached for her canteen to quench her parched throat. Suddenly, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon. He had a gun in one hand
Identifcation at the Drive-In
I once worked as a teller in the drive-in of our local bank and boy do I have some stories piled up from those years! One day a lady I didn’t recognize pulled up in the third row and asked me if she could get her check cashed. “Yes ma’am,” I said. “But I’ll need to see some photo identification.” I recall that we were very
How to Wake Up your Audience
Today’s story should go a long way to explaining why it’s important to do your own legwork when you’re speaking, preaching, or as I like to say, “Just talking really hard.” A minister decided to visit a large church in a nearby city while he was on vacation. Before the service began he introduced himself to the preacher and explained that he was intrigued
“Dennis is Looking for the Big Time”
I found a long-lost cousin the other day on the Internet. Or, to be more accurate, Clarissa found me. I can’t tell you exactly how we’re kin, but the branches of the tree meet somewhere back there. It’s been about ten years since we’ve seen each other and that was at a family reunion. We’ve had a big time sending emails back and forth catching
Letting Mama Cat Out of the Bag
The story goes that once upon a time a husband and wife were headed to the biggest Christmas party of the season. After dressing to the nines, they phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. Then they switched on a night-light, turned up the answering machine, covered the pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. Soon, the taxi pulled up to the
Holiday Traveling Travails
Some of my favorite holiday stories ever come from the Knaff family and the traveling travails of their daughter, Connie. The last of the four Knaff girls, Connie is a little thing with a big personality. She tops off around five foot. Her husband towers over her, coming in at six-four. They have three sons, triplets, and it looks like they all have their daddy’s
The Impatient Yankee
Old Man Henry stories are pretty popular around these parts. No one knows how they got started, or for that matter, how much truth there is to any of ‘em, but they do go way back. Even Mr. Henry seems to get a kick out of ‘em. Some more than others, like the time that poor Yankee drove his car into the ditch outside of