What can I get for this?: I’ve noticed in recent years that even though I’ve paid for a motel/hotel room in advance, the check-in clerk always wants my credit card for incidentals. That’s so I don’t skip out without paying for that Coke Zero and peanut M&Ms I scarfed down or that five-dollar bottle of water……

Love locks over the river: Many rivers have locks, but not only the kind that lowers or raises boats in its water. You may have seen them before, but quite honestly, I never had. On our recent visit to Europe, I saw them for the first time. There were tons of padlocks hanging from the……

I absolutely loved cologne: I began shaving when I was around thirteen. Why, you might ask? Not because I needed to but because I wanted to. I did have a small amount of peach fuzz on my face by that age, and my dad had a razor, shaving cream, and cologne. He also had……

A ride down the Rhine River: When I saw the handwriting on the wall, I knew we were no longer in Kansas; excuse me, I meant Alabama. As a matter of fact, we were approximately 4,500 miles east of my home in Opelika. I didn’t need the prophet Daniel to interpret this handwriting or even a……

Why did he say that?: People can say some strange things. Some of these statements are quite annoying, while others may be funny and enjoyable. Some of the things people say leave me shaking my head and wondering what they said and why they said it. Do you know what I mean? I’m talking about……

Boy on a Hot Tin Roof: Mama had a mysterious situation. Her dried apples kept disappearing. Each day, their number seemed to be less than it had been the day before. For some strange reason, she seemed to think I knew something about it. Mama must have thought I was extremely smart because she came to……

Wearing Old Man Blue Jeans: I’ve been wearing and loving blue jeans most of my life. I have noticed in more recent years that some of the jeans I’m wearing are different from the ones I wore when I was younger. For years, I have promised I would never wear a pair of those “old-man……

It was one of those nights: It is 2:00 on a Thursday. No, not 2:00 in the afternoon. I’m upstairs in my office writing what you are now reading. You might ask, “Why are you writing at 2:00 in the morning?” The real question is, “Why am I up at 2:00 in the morning?” Well, I……

Two loves that finally met one another: For most of my life, they had been around one another, but they had never actually met. When two of the great loves of my life finally got together, it was like they had been meant for one another all along, but I had never realized it. They made such……