This morning I went to take my eight hours of drivers training. We started at 8:20 and got out at 3:15. HA, I love it when they surprise us that way. The instructor was fantastic! He had been a local police man for the past 29 years and is retiring in December. He moved quickly through the information, and used many local anecdotes to drive his points home. Also in the class was a high profile insurance agent, (got caught speeding in a school zone), who also added his two cents when in applied....

Some of the richest humor I derive is that which is ironic. The surprise of what I think is one thing and often is another, never ceases to amaze me. As a younger, more angry man, when things didn't go the way I'd hoped, I would often, foolishly over react. As I have matured I, one, don't set my expectations nearly as high, and often shadow them with a touch of bleaker outcome to lesson the sting, and two, when they don't go my way, try to find the humorous side through the irony of it all. ...

I love admiring great photography. While so many us have the freedom to take pictures with the improvement of a camera feature on our phones, the internet is saturated with pics of all different types. Some of them are nice shots, some are amusing, and some are candid. But most of them can be only describe a snippet of the life in the image.

While I admire the medium, the talent I have for it couldn't fill a dimple on a golf ball. The closest I have ever come to capturing one...

So I've spent my life watching too much television. Now that I've seriously cut back, what does this writer end up doing? Get on his computer and...............watch YouTube!

Oh, the things I do for this blog.....

But have any of you out there noticed some new things popping up on YouTube in recent days? I'm seeing entire episodes of TV shows, past and present, that are now available on YouTube. Never, way back when, would I have ever...

”Luke 7:22 (NIV) - So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. -
John the Baptist heard that Jesus Christ was working nearby where he was working and wanted to know if he was the messiah (from Hebrew mashiah, “anointed”) whose coming was foretold in the scriptures, "the genuine...