The Cake

He got home pretty late. Everybody was still awake but dinner had already been put away in the refrigerator. “Oh you got a present today,” his wife informed him. One of the perks of being a doc in a rural community was that people gave you things at...

The Cake

He got home pretty late. Everybody was still awake but dinner had already been put away in the refrigerator. “Oh you got a present today,” his wife informed him. One of the perks of being a doc in a rural community was that people gave you things during...

The Call of the Wild

It is Saturday, ten o’clock in the morning. I drag my lazy bones off the couch and head out for a geezer walk. Not fast, not strenuous, just something to stretch the cramped muscles and get moving. Anything can happen, or nothing can happen. If I’m lucky, once I get...

The Camp Out

ALERT – ALERT – ALERT!!!Hello Bluegrassers! Please check your calendars! You have a couple of months to plan for the CBA FALL CAMP OUT.The Fall Camp out – October 15 – 21, 2018! Now, I know you have been busy and will continue to be, but the...

The Carl That Roared

Yesterday morning, I was in a business-to-business networking meeting, and talk turned to business communications, or more specifically, the “dumbing down” of modern communications. The youngest man in the room was 39, and there was much moaning and groaning over the...

The Carter Family

When I was a lad, I never knew what bluegrass music was. All we did was go to church and listen to church music. My daddy was a fundamentalist, holiness, Pentecostal preacher, and he was careful about what he let into the house. The music was sort of longhair....