Ray

I remember hearing people say that if the sun was out while it was raining that it was an omen of bad luck.

For many years, I played city league softball. I was an avid player, in that I played a lot of games, every chance I had to be exact.

Over the past several months my wife Bev and I have been doing renovations which required us to store some of our belongings in a spare room w…

With all the violent crime now constantly in the news I was reminded of a couple of instances where things could have gone sideways pretty easily.

There are so many kinds of “baits,” as one of my friends so aptly puts it, sometimes it can be hard to decide what to fish with.

Last week, when I was leaving to attend a luncheon with some friends, I got delayed because of a wreck. I could see the collision as I pulled …

I think that it is strange that you don’t hear people whistling anymore.

Over that last couple of years, there has been a noticeable number of people who have been publicly called out for their comments.

Over the years I have written many columns about people I have known who passed away. That list has now grown into the hundreds and, sadly, is…

I believe yellow flies are put here to give us a taste of what the netherworld must be like.

Over the next few weeks, I will become a great-grandfather. It seems so odd to me that I’ve reached the age in which that could be possible.

If William Shakespeare had been a southerner and called Jim Bob Shakespeare, his writings would have been different. No longer would there be …

Over the years I have met some strange and unusual people, excluding some of my relatives.

I started working in the summers, when I was 8 years old, in the tobacco fields. During the remainder of the year, I cut grass or raked yards.…

I’m not crazy about parallel parking especially on a busy street. I would rather drive around until I find another type of parking place even …

It seems that I have been digging bait and going fishing all my life. In my case that is about 65 or so years.

I find myself wanting to know what is going on in the world; however, over the last couple of years it seems that there hasn’t been much posit…

For the first time since I have owned my Ford pickup truck, it cost me over $80 to fill it up.

This past Saturday we had some heavy winds blowing through our yard. The weather station said gusts up to 45 mph.

Things that happened to you in the past have a way of catching up with you later in life.

Last weekend was perfect weather for me to finally wash my truck. I don’t even remember the last time I washed my truck, I’m fairly sure it wa…

It is about this time of year when we start to get tired of the cold weather and start counting the days to spring.