by Gene Sanders | Dec 2, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
When I was a little boy, I fell down a lot. I had a healthy sense of adventure and exploration, but not much sense of balance and almost no muscular coordination. My first stitches came when I fell off the monkey bars at the playground, split open my chin, nearly...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 28, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
The Porch Swing is near the greatest collection of amusement parks in the world. And it had been about 20 years since I’d been to the father of them all. So, recently Mrs. Swing and I found ourselves wandering through Frontier Land and came upon people taking...
by Gene Sanders | Nov 14, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
So some people say. Others say different. It would be fairly easy to fill up a page discussing the relative merits of big vs. small and short vs. tall. But that’s too easy, although I must admit almost irresistible. After all, my 5 ‘2” wife has a t-shirt that says...
by Gene Sanders | Oct 31, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Only a fool would intentionally smear HazMat on their skin, right? Only someone with serious emotional issues would, on purpose, squirt HazMat on her/his body, right? Um, no. Not right. To reduce the risk of spreading or getting infections, many people smear their...
by Gene Sanders | Oct 17, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
It only took me about 19 years to finish college. Surprisingly, I did take some courses in most of those years. I’d enroll, go awhile, and then take some time off. I’d finish a class or two, drop a class or two, or even just not finish without dropping out. That...
by Gene Sanders | Oct 3, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
My children have this look. It involves cocking the head just a bit to the side, squinting the eyes slightly, and seemingly saying to themselves “he has spent most of his life in the past century”. I can earn this look by coming out with some old saying they’ve...
by Gene Sanders | Sep 19, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
It had started innocently enough. At summer camp in Florida, a couple other counselors and I took some of the younger campers for an evening canoe ride along the shores and passageways of the lake. While paddling single file through a narrow passageway, one the...
by Gene Sanders | Sep 5, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
I look sideways at my daughter and say “Two questions: What do you think is wrong with this milk, and if it’s bad, why didn’t you throw it away?”. Of course, I know better than to do this. Never ask a child two questions at once and expect two answers. Confirming...
by Gene Sanders | Aug 22, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
I bought a label printer, and it prints, but it doesn’t print labels. Oh, I do take what it prints out, peel it off the backing, and stick the adhesive side onto my box, but it’s still not a label. It’s just a sticker, a sticker with markings on it. Long ago I...
by Gene Sanders | Aug 8, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
When I was but a wee lad my dad decided to initiate me to the delights of watching football. So, we went to the only public high school in town, the G.H.S. Purple Hurricanes, and I saw my first football game ever. And so, early in my life I learned that G.H.S. meant...
