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“It Won’t Take Long”
Traveling is getting easier with each generation, thus losing its ability to shape our character. Maybe this is why our nation is in a moral decline.
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Driving to Work in a Chicken Coop
Imagine sitting inside of a chicken coop as it is shoved through the atmosphere at 65 mph – feathers, dust, noise, shuddering and shaking – you get the idea!
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Four Teenagers Drive a Saturn to Mexico
That time three friends and I graduated high school and drove my $600 car from Pennsylvania to Mexico and back again.
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Vision Oriented and Budget Limited
A budget minded person would tell my wife to suck it up – new appliances are expensive!
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Gutter Gardens
Not that I’m opposed to gardening. Why just the other Saturday I was weeding my gutters. It’s hard to argue with your wife about the need to clean the gutters…
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Benedict Arnold Appliances, Adopted Chickens, Romantic Dinners
Where were these chickens coming from? Clearly I was being outsmarted by the dumbest fowl on the planet.
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Like an Iguana with Its Head Cut Off
I clean the van in the most frustrating way possible.
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The Miracle of Life and the Madness of Pregnancy
God, If Janice loves Alaska, we’ll move there. If not, then I’ll stop bugging you about Alaska and we’ll get on with our lives.
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Almost Heaven, West Virginia…
This lodging has three distinct advantages over a grub filled rotting tree: electricity, running water, and a porcelain toilet.
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The $20 Refrigerator
Maybe I could anoint it with oil. Maybe I could cast a demon out of it. That way the repair costs would fit into our budget, unless of course the…
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Burn Couches, Not Bridges
Junk piles seem to grow to point where they have their own gravity and actually start absorbing items into themselves. It will begin pulling things off shelves and will actually…
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Fixing Things, Finally.
The van began complaining a few months back. I didn’t pay much attention to it. I’m used to vehicles that complain and groan and even try to kill me on…
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Dropping the Ball on New Years
Janice laughed too. “Yay! Now we can practice being poor missionaries in Siberia with a cheap minivan.”
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Nocturnal Zombie Drivers
My wife lost her sanity. She’ll find it again, at least I hope so. She usually does, no thanks to me. I’m terrible at finding things.
