All walk and no play makes Jack a tough kid. Or a stubborn little bastard.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxuMKb5CKI0[/youtube] Now while you may chuckle at the video above, I think this is a case of life imitating art. How many times have you been in a supermarket/restaurant/movie and had your experience, which you were paying for, ruined by someone who can’t be bothered to get a babysitter? When I was a child I [...]

Continued from Part 3. After breakfast we took a walk through surrounding hills- if you have a dog letting them run loose in the wild is a special treat (as long as there’s nothing out there that would make them lunch). Several times I lost sight of him, only to see the white tip of [...]

Continuing from Part 2… As I swam out, into the cool water, my ankle finally quit hurting. Nothing like ice cold water to soothe an injury. Of course at that age water wasn’t bone chillingly cold, it was just invigorating. I noticed there was quite a bit of algae and plant life, so what ever [...]

The story continues from Part 1… After cleaning up dog barf, I was a little restless. “Son, go gather some firewood”, Dad said, less out of necessity and more out of indulgence. “There’s an ax over by the tent.” Sweet Jesus- an axe! What was before me was not an innocent camp implement from Home [...]

Twitfall is about personal experiences with Twits, and stupidity in general. Today is the first of several posts about camping trip with my father many years ago. There’s plenty of foolishness in there- just mostly my own. My father’s been dead a year now, in the end his life took a horrible toll on his [...]

What the hell happened to parental responsibility in this country?  When I grew up if my baseball went through a window, Dad paid the bill.  (He then took it out of my hide and allowance, but that’s another story.)  Seems like every day where there’s some horribly inept parent who blames someone else for their [...]