Recently, Son #1, Son #2, and I picked up black walnuts. We filled up a five-gallon bucket in no time at all. Then we got a plastic kids’ pool and filled it up a quarter of the way. And there were still black walnuts all over the ground and falling from the tree. We hadContinue reading “The Walnut Harvest”
Tag Archives: Wonderings
The Grammatically Incorrect
Some people believe that a writer knows how to use grammar. This assumption is incorrect. I don’t know how to structure a sentence. I write what feels right to me. I wasn’t particularly interested in English as a school subject until we started reading poetry. I wrote my first poem at sixteen. It was aContinue reading “The Grammatically Incorrect”
The Guest Writer
Well, we almost had a guest writer tonight. On Monday, while I was sleeping my life away after being hit by an eighteen-wheeler, Charity took my phone and wrote a post in my note app because she didn’t know if I would be able to write anything that evening. I woke up in time andContinue reading “The Guest Writer”
The Last Minute
“Caleb, have you written tonight’s post?” My wife asked. I rolled over, half asleep, “Nuh-uh.” I’ve been in bed since six o‘clock pm. I feel like I was hit by a Mack truck. After work today, I ate supper and excused myself to the horizontal sleeping apparatus most people just call a bed. I feelContinue reading “The Last Minute”
The Long-Winded
This post will be a short one. Did you ever hear a preacher say he was almost finished? And this was after he had already preached for an hour? Twenty minutes later, you get a hankering to stage a protest. He just keeps going. You know you’re momma is cooking pot roast, and you hateContinue reading “The Long-Winded”
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