In the dying days of summer, here is a story that will take you back to the heat of it. One summer, I worked at a summer camp. It was a blast. I got paid to hang out with kids and play guitar all day. As with all good camp…
You will notice that a lot of my University stories that were actually interesting involved me sitting around with a group of friends in one of our dorm rooms. This one starts out in pretty much the same way. Dilbert, who you will remember from “Full Moon” (yes we still…
I should tell you right up front that I am not a violent person by nature and generally do not condone such behavior from others. …but sometimes things just happen unintentionally. That doesn’t make them any more OK though. Perhaps I should get into the story and you’ll get what…
One fall back when I was younger than I am currently, I had the great privilege of being one of a select group of visually impaired students who got to go on an all expenses paid trip to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. There were several other visually impaired students…
Because sometimes well intentioned friends can be too helpful. This happens to me all the time, so speaking of a particular instance would be no different than any other. I will be walking along on a perfectly sunny day and enjoying it very much, usually coming home from Church, but…
This is from my side project A Thicker Lens but I thought it would be useful to post and discuss here also. *** Because sometimes well intentioned friends can be too helpful. This happens to me all the time, so speaking of a particular instance would be no different than…
It was a warm (but not too warm) June day. I had just graduated from high school and the afternoon was reserved for getting ready for the prom. Of course I had a date and she was gorgeous. I can see enough to know that. I got my tux all…
It was a sunny summer afternoon. I was spending it at my cousin’s place as my family and his were having one of our typical get-togethers. We had been playing video games in the living room until grown up logic convinced us crazy teenagers to go outside and enjoy the…
It was a fresh August evening in the rural town which I currently call home. I had finished everything I had planned to do for the day and was getting ready to relax for a while. I figured I would watch some re runs of Friends, which I had stowed…
It was a dull Tuesday afternoon. I was off school for a week because I was at a week long program at APSEA back when they still did those, I’m not entirely sure why they stopped those now, but that’s getting off track. During some down time in the afternoon,…