It is, in my opinion, that everyone is an idiot. I am saying the entire population of the world, as we know it, regardless of IQ, age, where you went to school, how long you went to school, what you read, what you learn, or the frequency in which you use the word 'indubitably' is an idiot. I ...

It is currently 5:09 pm June 4, 2024, Tuesday, Primary Election night, and this has been the last hour of my life. An hour ago, I contacted my sister, who was about to get off work, to get me some chicken from the gas station on her way home. While on the phone with my sister, my Ma sits a ...

Alright, let's get the compliment out of the way right now, then we can move on to the fun stuff. Ya see, the old one, my father, can fix about anything if he puts his mind to it. He's fixed furniture, cars, mowers, doors, you name it. The thing is he doesn't always fix it the way one would ...

Alright, so if you've had as many health problems as I've had in my life, there's something you have to deal with. The out of town doctor's appointment. My family has learned to make a day out of it, ya go out to lunch, Goodwill, maybe a few other shops, then back home. It's a pros and cons ...

Alright, I have a confession. I am about to tell you something that no one in my life knows. I've kept it secret for years, but here it goes. I secretly dance. Yes, you heard that right. Okay, let me be clear about this, there is only one type of dancing I understand. Line dancing, tap ...

Well, I got sick, had me some Influenza, a sprinkle of ear infection, and just a touch of pneumonia. The bad part is the rest of the house was sick too. I can't have nothin' for myself. Ya know, somethin' else? I either look like death all the time or when I'm sick I have the power to retain ...

Finding a new subject for mockery amongst my family is like finding a 20 at the landfill; most everything else has been picked over by the buzzards, making the find a wondrous delight. The latest find has been me, or at least the way I talk. I was born here, and I grew up here, yet somewhere ...

You've tuned into the Mike show on this Easter weekend, and my mind's percolatin' and my blood's ciculatin', so let's get at it. Sit back in your easy chair, munch on that chocolate bunny that will be half off next week, sittin' by the Fourth of July stuff, and listen to a tale selected from ...

In the last couple of weeks, I have been driven to the brink of insanity, then slowly backed away from the precipice of that nutty abyss. All because of my Father, that old S.O.B. Ya see, my Father retired a few years back. At first, it was awful, for the rest of us anyway, but then his ...

Last year was my first year with the paper. I didn't have any schoolin' on bein' a reporter nor much trainin'. All of my learnin' was boiled down into two things, helpful tips from my newspaper brethren and black and white movies where the reporter talks out of the side of his mouth and solves ...