Nostalgia You know how you have fond memories of a TV show or movie from when you were young, and when you finally get to see it again as an adult (or in this case, older adult), it isn’t quite how you remembered it? Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s amazing, but some other times, well, […]
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“From the day that you’re born to the day you ride in the hearse things are never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.” Sam Duncan was an African American educator in Higginsville, Missouri from the 1950s-1970s where he taught a number of classes and coached several sports. The high school’s football field is named […]
As Bill Cosby would say, I told you the previous story to tell you this story. Several years ago when my girls were about five and seven, Heather and I took them hiking at Ha Ha Tonka state park in Camdenton, Missouri. After we had hiked from the castle all the way down past the […]
My friend Wilxn was telling me about the time when he was 12 and he and some friends found a dead cow. “It was all dead and bloated,” he started. “So I grabbed a long stick–” “You poked it?” I asked incredulously. “I didn’t even get the chance,” he said. “It just exploded!”
My friend Wilkson always had a hard time with people misreading or mispronouncing his name: Wilkerson, Wilskerin, Wilkerins, Wilskerinson, etc. But I think I have come up with a clean, phonetic replacement: Wilxn. I realize there is a small chance it could be pronounced wilzn, but I’m willing to take my chances.