I recently returned from a two month trip to Central America, where I was fortunate enough to study Spanish and experience the customs in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Nicaragua. It was an amazing experience, and even though I ran into a few situations that my trusted Lonely … [Read more...]

Biology -- the mere fact that I am related to my daughter -- made me a grandfather. It was when my 13-day-old grandson baptized me down the front of my shirt and I wore it like a badge of honor that I knew I had become a grandpa. Grandpa Cole. Wow. It is a concept a young guy … [Read more...]

In retrospect, adding the chickens sounded better in the planning than in the execution – which very nearly was ours. Certainly, we wouldn’t have had to hide in the hayloft for three days, fighting the cats for their dish of kibbles. It was somewhere around my eighth year of … [Read more...]

My girlfriend usually comes through when it comes to birthday gifts. This year however I was slightly disappointed. She knows that I have a Swiss army knife and while I don't ever use it or talk about it, she knows it's a very important part of the bottom of the junk drawer in my … [Read more...]

(I have been busy attempting to write a romance novel. It has turned out to be pretty hard. After three long months, here’s what I have.) They kissed. A really good kiss. A soap opera kiss. He broke away. He needed to go to work. Before he left, he turned swiftly and put his … [Read more...]