Good parenting at WalMart

By Chris | June 23, 2013 |

I like Walmart but tend to avoid the place because the customers there tend to get on my nerves. And yeah, I know there’s some built-in irony about complaining about a group of people when I’m a member of that group. Fortunately, Sheri and I have found a loophole that allows us to avoid the…

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Rug shopping in 2005

By Chris | January 9, 2013 |

I found this story on an old web site of mine and thought it was worth sharing again after a quick edit. We lived in Las Vegas at the time and frequently visited Southern California. We went to visit my wife’s parents for Thanksgiving weekend. Sheri’s grandmother gave us a Persian rug as a housewarming…

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Confused in the head

By Chris | November 28, 2012 |

I own a lot of hats. Some are fun. Some are serious. Some are Winter hats. Some are Summer hats. If I wear one hat at a time, which is the appropriate maximum number of hats to wear around these parts, that leaves approximately 96% of my hats unworn at any given time. With that…

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