Ollie Goes Back to School “I don’t know about skills anymore.  I am 103 years old and I limp a little and probably drink too much beer.  However, Mr. President, I have been enriched with many blessings in life by Christ, and this includes a long and satisfying —although tragic life, and a brain that still works as well as it did at age 25, but without the stupidity that comes with youth.&nbs Read More

Most loyal and subservient ink-pens tend to resist spitting words rapid-fire to innocent, virgin paper that don’t conform to the standard coffee-sipping book club norms that are taught in stuffy English literature and composition classes that have never enjoyed the sweet slutty fragrance of  new styles that laugh in the face of mundane, meaningless brick and mortar walls of boring punctuation, or in Read More

While it is true that I do have a large thundering herd of avid readers, perhaps only a small group of about a thousand will remember my blog piece from a few years ago, where I lamented my difficulty in finding a real middle name that starts with an “R”.  You’ve probably been losing very little sleep at all, completely not wondering if I have had any success in my difficult search. Sadly, I Read More

            She doesn’t have a special man now, but the men she had in the past often couldn’t meet her minimum standards:  masculine confidence with a little humility, kindness and dedication to support her needs and inspirations, as well as a gentle spirit that also was framed around strength.  But one deal breaker was this: they must l Read More

Dear Carson: I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been busier than I thought I’d be at this age, and honestly, I miss the warm sunshine and waves crashing on the beach and all the pretty women who are interested in talkng to an old man who likes to swim, even with a bad leg, but I realize I’m needed elsewhere.  Too much is going on that should not be, and the stupid political government shutdo Read More

Prompt: She told him, with the kind of smile that only comes from surviving too many betrayals, “they are allergic to life,” as though mortality itself were an espionage plot.  He realized then, that her diagnosis was not medical, but a coded warning that loving her would be as fatal as crossing enemy lines. The file did not show names, but held information about the candidate’s qualifications a Read More

Note to my voracious readers:  I am sure most of you know this is fiction and could never happen, and didn’t happen and any names used are purely fictional. But then, with Ollie, you never know what is real and what is fiction, because he only allows certain bits of truth to be known, when he wants it known.  You see, Ollie is real, because our searching souls desperately want him to be real, w Read More

My Response to the Reader Prompt by Reader Rhian Joanne Prompt:  Write a love letter to a specific person or your dream person Joanne, you disappeared from my life, suddenly, a long time ago, and I never had the opportunity to say goodbye, or perhaps at least enjoy a few more precious moments together before you vanished completely. I thought you were easy to find, but more practically, I had Read More

The Old Man in the Swamp “I’ve got about fifteen minutes before you bring him in to my office, so I’m going to need the intelligence brief on the old guy, ok Susie?  Oh, and I need a diet coke too.  So, he pressed his diet coke button and got it. The Chief of staff then opened her brief case and pulled out a single sheet of paper and timidly handed it to POTUS. “One lousy peace of pa Read More

My Response to Reader Sha Reader Sha submitted this prompt: Teach everything you know This prompt is difficult but I have decided to simplify it into five simple teachings that I have learned in my life, or have been taught, that will guide us in the right way in life. First: The greatest commandment: Mark 12:29: Jesus told the religious leaders: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your Read More