A Word About Winding Every spring, and again late in the fall, we have a ‘change of seasons’ ritual at our house, because the time changes. Spring forward. Fall back. And more than a dozen clocks in our home all have to be changed to the correct time. Most of those clocks are battery…
A Word About Shelf Life My wife and I had to be away from our home rather unexpectedly, a few weeks ago. Our plan was to visit family for two or three days and then return home. But circumstances too cumbersome to go into here meant we would be away from our home for…
A word about,.. Story Time I’m not sure when I started enjoying the art of telling stories. Maybe it was in first grade, when every week — I think it was Fridays — my teacher, Miss Kenny would late in the afternoon and just before we were supposed to get out of the jail…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Stopping A word about,… Stopping I noticed something the other day on a sign — one of those road signs that workers put up when they’re working on the highway or a road. One of those big, orange signs. You’ve seen them, I’m sure. And, over…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Fear A word about Fear. I’m not sure how they ever figured it out; those scientists and really smart people who say that we humans are only born with two ‘factory-installed’ fears: The fear of falling, and the fear of loud noises. Now, I’m not a scientist,…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Conversations I word about,… Conversations. Most reasonable people believe in God, I think. Most sensible people even talk to God, (if not frequently, at least on occasion.) When the daze and dizziness of life’s journey becomes too great, When the bewilderment about what’s going on becomes so…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Notes A word about … Notes I love the word “notes.” In my lifetime, I don’t even know how many notes I’ve written. Some of my notes were of the musical kind. Blotches on treble or bass cleffs, for singers to sing, or players to play. I’ve…
A word about,… Names When you grow up with a name like mine — a name like Jones, and you are in the third grade, and Miss Jordan assigns seats on the first day of class, you know where you are going to sit for the rest of the year, before she even tells you….
Ken Jones · Classic State Of Mind Radio – Meeting A word about Meeting I recently watched a news conference by the President of the United States. It was being conducted at the White House in the press briefing room. We’ve all seen either the White House Press Secretary, or the President himself standing at…
A Word About … Paying Attention When I was younger, I had a terrible time ‘paying attention.’ In fact, I had an awful time even understanding what that term meant. I mean, who are you ‘paying’ when you’re paying attention? When I was I a little boy, I knew I didn’t have any money,…