by Thomas F Daniels | Jan 29, 2017 | Issues to Care About, Memory Lane
Think back to high school speech class. For me, this was the worst torture imaginable causing knees shaking, cheek twitching, armpits sweating, and pubescent voice cracking. If I dared look up to make the required eye contact, there was always some jerk-off giving me...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jan 22, 2017 | Memory Lane
Looking at some old childhood pictures of Cookie and me, I couldn’t help smiling. How darn cute were we in some of them with our “Sunday go to meeting” (old-fashioned saying meaning your best outfit) clothes on? We would have a sports coat with a white shirt and a...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jan 15, 2017 | Issues to Care About, Uncategorized
Euchre is a very popular card game. It is fast moving and simple by design. People get into tournaments, clubs, and social outings with euchre as the drawing card. Trump is a key word in the game, and, of course, if you have the jack of trump called the right bower,...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jan 8, 2017 | Issues to Care About
Mental illness affects the entire human race. It is like cancer that attacks all of us. The huge difference between the two diseases is that cancer usually will be detected, then treated aggressively, and hopefully conquered. We all know of individuals who have died...
by Thomas F Daniels | Dec 5, 2016 | Memory Lane
“He ain’t nothin’ but a ham!” To this day after some fifty-five years, I can still hear Albert Mashall’s father’s booming voice as he stood outside the fence at the St. Catherine softball diamond. Albert was a black teammate of mine. His father never...
