It was written by an 8-year-old, Danny Dutton of Chula Vista, CA, for his third-grade homework assignment.  The assignment was to explain God.  Wonder if any of us could do as well?” EXPLAIN GOD……. One of God’s main jobs is making people.  He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of […]

WHAT’S IN A HANDSHAKE ? In Switzerland it has long been customary for students to shake the hands of their teachers at the beginning and end of the school day.   It’s a sign of solidarity and mutual respect between teacher and pupil, one that is thought to encourage the right classroom atmosphere.   Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga recently felt compelled to further […]

Many thanks to Barb for sending this to me.  It is SO fitting with my thoughts today with the spiritual war going on in this world.  The demon worshippers (Dems, Libs, RINO’s, Globalists and the fake *Representatives* who created and then pased that hellish piece of legislation they call the Monster Spending bill.  I was SO hoping that Trump would […]

A farmer got pulled over by a state trooper (Slatten) for speeding, and Slat started to lecture the farmer about his speed, and in general, began to throw his weight around to try to make the farmer uncomfortable. Finally,Slat got around to writing out the ticket, and as he was doing that he kept swatting at some flies that were […]

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts and arrogance. It’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, “No other word and no other language can do it justice.” Read the story below and you will understand. A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would […]

Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church’s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Several members did not approve of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence & distance. She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the […]

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Eighty-three years ago today, Nicholas and Helen Oprian, first-generation Romanian immigrants living in San Francisco, welcomed their only child into the world. They named her Virginia, a nice American name. She was my mother. Mom has been gone these past two years, and I’ve written about her before, so here we are at […]

Art by A.F. Branco

The quintessential reason why Grandpa carries a gun. Why Carry a Gun? My old Grandpa said to me, “Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s when he becomes too old to take a whoopin’.” I don’t carry a gun to kill people; I carry a gun […]

We can’t wait.

When students took the entrance exam for medical school, They were perplexed by this question: “Rearrange the letters P-N-E-S-I to spell out the part of the human body That is most useful when erect.” Scroll down Those who spelled SPINE became doctors. The rest are in Congress

Art by A.F. Branco

Suddenly, a cow runs out onto the road, and a limo driving late at night, hits it head on, and the car comes to a stop. The woman in the back seat, in her usual abrasive manner, says to the Chauffeur, “You get out and check on that poor cow. You were driving.” So the chauffeur gets out, checks, and […]

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. ‘How old are you?’ ‘ I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on […]

Art by A.F. Branco

Special thanks to Robert for sending this one in….. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.” “Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life […]

Author unknown Tips My Grandmother Gave Me My beloved grandmother, may she rest in peace, used to carry an old notebook with her wherever she went. She would fill it with beautiful thoughts and advice she got from wise people. Throughout my childhood, I would see her writing things down in that little notebook. I always thought they were her […]

This is the place to start. Volume seventy three comes out next month.