Thirty minutes is a long time to wait in a doctor’s office lobby. The only thing that makes it tolerable is I know when it will end. It will be exactly a half an hour. When my time is up I get to walk up to the window, assure the nurse that my air passages have not closed up, and leave. A half an hour in the lobby waiting for the nurse to call you back to the exam room, not knowing when you…
My coworkers bemoan my lack of recognition for my work (at work). They ask me why I don’t call attention to myself. Little do they know I’m calling attention to myself right now. Granted, someone would have to be reading this for it to count as “calling attention to myself.” Would you believe me if I told you that the act of creating a useful tool that others might find…
“whaa whaa whawhaa?”
“ugh.”
“JOHN!”
“Huh?”
“Do you want to go to Adventure Island today?”
“Let me sleep. Just one more hour? Please?”
“John, it’s been an hour. Get up and get dressed. You can eat your breakfast in the car.”
“uuhh… ”
Later that day at lunch in the park, a father and his child…
It is late. You are lying in bed but sleep will not come. You don’t think you are particularly worried about anything, yet your mind refuses to slow to a pace which will accommodate sleep. You know that you will need to be rested tomorrow, and soon you are dismayed to find that it is tomorrow. You think about all the things you could do to fall asleep. Read something really boring? Check.
The elements are conspiring to turn my yard into a rain forest. In case you didn’t already know, we’ve been getting a lot of rain. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem; in fact, rain is generally considered to be a good thing for green growing things. What we have here is a problem in the timing.
I go to work.
I call decide to mow the lawn.
I go home.
The rain begins to…
I participated in my first move in several years this weekend. There was a time when I moved more often than I went out to eat. Lately though, there has been a welcome reprieve. However, an opportunity came up this weekend that I could not refuse: my sister was moving into her first house. I know from experience that this is a wonderfully exciting time and I just had to be there. Unfortunately for…
Why do we submit ourselves to sorrow? Life is hard enough, yet we remind ourselves that it can be harder. I’m speaking of movies that end badly. Not bad in the sense that they are poorly crafted; rather, they end on a sad note. The good guy does not prevail. Good does not defeat evil. The hero does not pull it out in the end.
I’ve just finished watching such a movie, and I’m left…
John and Cheryl had been married nearly ten years, but they had know each other since high school. First they were perfect strangers, then they were friends, then more than friends (wink, wink), then man and wife, and finally mother and father. Through it all they noticed changes in each other. Cheryl grew a little sterner and more assertive. Being a law enforcement officer will do that to you.