The tornado touched down on the suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood, the high school and houses were damaged. “As long as the kids are ok…” one woman said on the news. Ok, finish that sentence mam. What if the kids are not ok? What if everyone did...
I prefer smooth. Crunchy is just no good. Smooth is nice, easy, even a bit reassuring. Crunchy is indicative of something much worse. It is to be avoided at all costs. Oh, you thought we were talking about peanut butter. Are you insane? Do you know how many...
You have a headache. It hurts really bad. Eventually you just can’t take it anymore. So, you go to the hospital and get an x-ray. Sure enough it shows that when you were working on your house you did in fact shoot a nail with your nail gun and it went...
I walked into the funeral home. I saw her with her back to me. She turned around. We looked at each other and hugged. She cried hard, I did too. What can you say when someone loses a parent? Not much. What can you do? Join them in their sadness. The other...
August 10, 2011 – We walk into Trey’s room after his surgery. The surgery went very bad. We are told that he looks good. I clarified with the surgeon that he, in fact, looks good in general not just better than he did during the worst of the surgery. ...
Let me be perfectly clear. I do not like the prototypical/stereotypical/cliche’ post or news story. I grieve for the poor news guy who has to go out on Black Friday and roam the mall parking lots or the reporter who has to go out and interview the annual polar...
