When our children were small, we had a tradition of sorts, at our house. Every Sunday evening, my wife would break out the waffle iron, and prepare batter. She’d slice bowls of different kinds of fruit, set the syrup on the table, along with several kinds of homemade jam she had canned herself. She’d set…
Where in the world does the time go, I wonder, when time goes by? And how many times have I used that phrase? As time’s clock ticks the moments of my life away, After a second has passed … Does it go somewhere? Is there some great vault of moments, Where the God of All…
Every year when they run the Indianapolis 500, I always imagine what it would be like to drive the pace car. It’s usually a cool-looking Corvette or some other really fast car that leads the lines of race cars around the track. At just the right moment, seemingly at the very last second, just…
I recently did a review of some of the previous segments I’ve done for Classic State of Mind, things I’ve said in previous broadcasts. Doing so gives me a perspective on what I was thinking at a particular time, about a particular word, you might say. In a previous segment several months ago, I did…
If you were to think back over your last twenty-four hours, who have you talked to? And what did you talk about? In the last twenty-four hours of my life, I’ve probably had four or five dozen individual conversations with various people. Of course, I live with some of those people. I’m related to some…
Not that anyone has asked, but … I’ve got a sore knee. I don’t know if I bumped it, or twisted it without realizing I had hurt myself. But in the last few days, every step I take reminds me not to get too excited about bending my knee because it’s swollen, stiff, sore. It…
The next time you watch a commercial on television, count how many different camera shots you see in 30-seconds. What you’ll discover is that in that 30-second commercial, you’ll count between 8 and 15 different camera shots, and in many commercials more than 20! A different picture, a different camera angle, a different happy, smiling…
Like most people, I suppose, throughout my life, there have been many times when confusion, or doubt, or wondering, or just not being absolutely sure about some decision I had to make caused me to worry. Once, when I was debating in my mind the wisdom of buying a particular car, I called my dad…
The other day, I stood on our back deck and noticed the lovely sky; I watched as an azure sky kept changing its mind, as if it were trying to decide what shade of blue it needed to wear for the day. I marveled as I watched it dissolve from one color of blue into…
In the evenings at our house, we always try to sit down at the table and have dinner together. My wife is very faithful to plan meals and prepare them. She’s almost always the cook. (Oh, sometimes, if I go fishin’ and catch a few, I’ll clean the fish when I get home, and fry…