Tag: family
group name: jackiepapandrew
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April 28, 2008 07:41 AM EDT --
Ever since I can recall, my dad has been telling The Pig Story. He tells it with great flourish and over the years, he's perfected a series of coy pauses and soft smiles, delivered at just the . . . more
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April 07, 2008 08:21 AM EDT --
I'm a big fan of the English. They are highly civilized, rich in culture and history. If only they'd learn to drive correctly and speak the language properly, they'd be a perfect people. . . . more
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May 19, 2008 02:03 AM EDT --
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out -- Rodney Dangerfield
Every once in a while, in a blinding moment of clarity that fortunately doesn't last long, I realize . . . more
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January 25, 2008 07:45 AM EST --
In honor of Season 7 of American Idol, here's something I wrote in an earlier season of idol insanity...
Now that we are deeply embedded, as a nation, in yet another season of the cultural . . . more
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November 23, 2007 09:37 AM EST --
Every year about this time, I harvest a new crop of hope that’s been watered by an abundance of denial. I envision a holiday season infused with peace, saturated with a spirit of thankfulness . . . more
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December 27, 2007 06:31 PM EST --
You know how, when you're a child, and you don't correctly hear the lyrics to a song or the words to some hackneyed cliché that adults are always throwing around? Like the phrase my parents . . . more
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December 10, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!
And he puzzled three hours, ‘till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t . . . more
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November 27, 2007 08:38 PM EST --
‘Tis a few weeks 'til Christmas and all through my house
Not a gift has been bought, and I’m feeling like a louse.
The dog chewed up the stockings I left . . . more
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January 06, 2008 07:30 PM EST --
I hear tell the road to hell is paved with good intentions
And Mama my intentions were the best -- Randy Travis in "Good Intentions"
Mark Twain once suggested . . . more
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February 04, 2008 11:31 AM EST --
To celebrate the end of football season, I've posted something I wrote back at the beginning of yet another season of insanity...
Anybody who watches three games of football in . . . more
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