by Bill McCurry | Feb 24, 2012 | Life
Once you watch a few people die, you realize that death doesn’t give a damn about your dignity. Dignity is a human invention, and if we want someone to have dignity in death we’d better manufacture some. I’m writing this with the assistance of my...
by Bill McCurry | Feb 17, 2012 | Confidence, Humor, Life, Love, Marriage, Relationships
In the first three days of our romantic Jamaican holiday, my poor decision making skills nearly killed my wife and me. I blundered into buying a deep tissue massage, and we would certainly have died if I’d had enough money for the two hour session, or if our masseuses...
by Bill McCurry | Feb 14, 2012 | Humor, Life, Love, Marriage
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I must observe that my parents taught me how to break into cars. They taught me other useful stuff, like how play poker, when to over-tip, and to always buy the coolest presents I can afford. They taught me to frame walls, but for...
by Bill McCurry | Feb 13, 2012 | Humor, Life, Marriage, Relationships
A palpable wave of hatred is surging over me as I sit on this Jamaican beach. My friends are hurling that wave at me from a thousand miles away while they look out their windows at snow. I may not be welcome in their homes when I return. They certainly will not allow...
by Bill McCurry | Feb 10, 2012 | Humor, Life
Fifty years will carve a people-sized Grand Canyon into a person’s body and mind. Sure, the Colorado River took millions of years to gouge the real Grand Canyon out of the Arizona rock, but we’re softer and get hit with harsher stuff than water and wind. My friend The...
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