Posts Tagged ‘March’

When my daughter was waitressing at a gourmet restaurant, she was shocked at how often people complained. Once the food was served and the patrons had a few minutes to sample it, she was taught to ask with a smile, “How is everything?” in hopes that everything was alright. But when some of the regular…

So I’ve written another book. But this one is different from the others. Through the years I’ve written about kids and parenting, about golf and guys. I’ve written about integrity and aging parents. About marriage and laughter. I’ve written about everyone I’ve caught hanging around our house, and finally I decided it was time to…

Today we present another installment of really lame joke day. Our professional panel of joke enthusiasts couldn’t be found, so my son and I searched far and wide for the top seven terrible jokes of the year, and I believe we have outdone ourselves this time. Warning, the following attempts at humour will likely cause…

Do you remember the day you first learned about the birds and the bees? I was in fourth grade. My friend Bobby told me all about it. As I recall, he had the whole thing embarrassingly backwards, and I trust he’s been informed of this now that he has his own counseling ministry. A few…

I love visiting old people. They make me feel young. But all of us are aging. In the grocery store one day a guy asked my wife if it’s her dad who writes those books. I threw my dentures at him. If there was a quick, inexpensive fix for wrinkles, baldness, aches, pains and the heckling…

I don’t like cold weather. Not one bit. I love ice in my drinks, but incoming cold front are ugly words to me. Like your taxes were due Friday. One winter, when our children were young, thanks to a serious breach in climate change, the weatherman continued to deliver snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures. On…

I heard about a preacher who was strolling down the street and came upon some kids who had surrounded a scruffy looking dog. He thought they might be hurting the dog, so he stopped and said, “Whatcha doin?” One of the boys said, “This is a stray dog. We all want him, but only one…

While writing the book To Be Perfectly Honest one of my great dilemmas was this: How honest should I be with my wife? Ramona and I have been married over 30 years and part of it is that I avoid saying things like “Crying is blackmail”, but here’s my secret to a long marriage –…

Sometimes bad decisions make great stories. While writing a book called When You Need a Good Laugh, I had a small accident. There was nothing funny about it. And come to think of it, it was a large accident. In fact, the doctor told me I had no business surviving, that my family should be…