by Gene Sanders | Dec 28, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
For the next 60 seconds, when I start this stopwatch, you may think of anything you want, except Pink Elephants. You may not create mental pictures of pachyderms that are pink instead of grey, you not allowed to think of the alcoholic drink, and you cannot even let...
by Gene Sanders | Dec 14, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
I had just informed my son that for the second time in his 15 years of life, I was about to move him to a new city and a new school. “Finally used to things here”, are you kidding me? We’d been in that city for 10 years, and that school district for 9 years, so it...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 30, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
“Oh, no, I’m not. I’ve got 2 minutes to spare”, responds my teenager. “Not on a week night”, I answer, “you’re nearly two hours late”. “Get a clue, Dad, there’s no school tomorrow. So, I’m on time”. “It’s still a week night, though, and you’re past the week night...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 16, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
I suppose that’s true for lots of boys, and probably for the same reason as Jackson’s. Fire engines are red, fire trucks are red, and fire wagons are red. Jackson doesn’t play with model cars, he plays with model ladder trucks and model pumpers and model fire chiefs’...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 2, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
I was younger then. Years ago…, heck, centuries ago…, wait, actually, due to Y2K, technically a millennium ago, I was young and there were drive-in movie theatres across the land. We were at a double-feature, and after the children’s movie would be the latest and...
