True Story I had a blowout on the highway when a patrol officer pulled up. He got out, looked things over, and saw right away that my jack wasn’t doing the job. He went back to his car, grabbed his own jack, rigged it up, and said—word for word—“Watch my back, I got you.” I […]

“This is Priscilla and she is a well known member of our community. She chooses to sit in an old rotting chair under a bridge every day. Her legs are swollen three times their normal size. She’s mentally ill. She will curse you up and down if she doesn’t like you but she is the […]

In 1855, James Henry Younger was born into a world of turmoil along the Kansas-Missouri border, where blood feuds and frontier violence shaped his earliest memories. He grew up in the shadow of the Civil War, witnessing his father’s murder and the destruction of his family home—events that marked him for a life on the […]

Yesterday – after a Dr.’s appointment – we went to IHOP in Abilene. Dwayne immediately noticed the waitress’s name tag (Dwayne has a thing for badges and name tags). He told the waitress that he liked her name tag and then told her that his name is “Captain America.” Before we left – here comes […]