My Truculent Blog
My high school teacher stood at the front of the classroom and said rather tersely, “Mr. Pratt, Mr. Pratt…what is the sentence?” “What…what?” I responded. “The word is ‘truculent’…I asked …
Yield of Dreams
As you drive along I-80 through Nebraska, heading west to Wyoming, you may be looking at the rows upon rows of corn along the highway. You would be following the …
A GPS For Blogging
In the Monty Python movie, the ‘Life of Brian,’ the main character in the movie, Brian (of course), is being chased through the marketplace by Roman Centurions who think he …
For Your Eyes Only
I am sitting at the card table at the Casino Royale. The guy with the scar that starts on his cheek, cuts across his eyelid, up into his eyebrow is …
“Hey , Hey, You, You…Get onto My Cloud!”
Please allow me to introduce myself. I’m a man with a whole new game. I’ve been around for some long, long years When the products all just seemed the same …
The Red Poppy Express
It is said that General Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army of the Pacific theatre during WWII, had disdain for Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in …
The Tyranny of Numbers
I used to work in a Psychiatric Hospital. There, I said it. Now you don’t all have to jump in and say, “I knew it. I just knew it – …
Trick or Treat Trucking
As kids my mother would prevent us from yelling “Trick or Treat” when we went out on Hallowe’en night. She would make us kids say “Hallowe’en Apples”. We would hear …
“Prochaine Sortie”
There was a famous Canadian comedy troop (we have a lot of them) on CBC radio called Air Farce. Every week, they would put on a one-hour show that captured …
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