It wasn’t exactly a crisis. I mean, it was only a matter of 80 cents. The price of a candy bar, or a can of soda or a bottle of water. How big of a deal can that be?Still, it was embarrassing. I was short 80 cents for the gas I had already pumped, and the convenience...
A few years ago I tried an experiment with a group of 10-year-olds I was teaching.“You have a choice,” I announced as I held up a bowl of M&M’s. “You can either have a handful of M&M’s right now, or you can each have an entire bag of M&M’s tomorrow.”“Why...
It was supposed to be a loving, carefree Daddy-Daughter Date, with Elizabeth and I sharing fun and games with a dozen other daddies and their daughters from our church congregation. But somehow it turned into a somewhat awkward blind date. And guess who was the one...
It was just a harmless prank, that's all that it was. And it wasn't as though Old Lady Hayes didn't deserve it. The way she used to scream at us for borrowing a few of her precious raspberries, like we were stealing gold out of Fort Knox ... well, she had it coming.At...
It wasn’t a horrible day. Believe me, I know all about horrible days. I’ve HAD horrible days. And this wasn’t one of them. Not by a long shot.But it was a Monday, and that’s usually horrible enough.To start things off, I got up late. Don’t you hate that feeling?...
On the surface, it appeared that Nicole had everything in the world going for her.By any standard of measurement, she was a beautiful young woman. She had a bright, buoyant, bubbly personality that endeared her to teenagers and adults alike. She had lots of friends,...
There were a thousand reasons not to stop.I was running late for a Very Important... well, whatever it was that I was running late for that day. The freeway was busy -- I might have caused an accident or something. Surely the Highway Patrol would be along soon, and...