by Bill McCurry | Sep 10, 2014 | Cats, Family, Humor
My mom passed away exactly 2.54 years ago today. To mark this anniversary I’m sharing a brief anecdote from her life, one involving violence, drunkenness, profanity, and murder. Incidentally, this explains a lot about my behavior. Mom always detested one of her...
by Bill McCurry | Sep 9, 2014 | Communication, Confidence
Somewhere on the internet there’s a photo of me at a gargantuan beer festival. In this photo I’m young, and I’m sitting with my friends who are also young. They’re laughing and waving their beers and cigarettes in time with the polka music. My face is on the table,...
by Bill McCurry | Jun 24, 2014 | Communication, Life
A couple of weeks ago I was shamed into cutting my Facebook time down to 10 minutes a day. I experienced mixed success with that, which bothered me a little. So last week I decided on a whim to stop checking Facebook at all for a while–maybe a week. No...
by Bill McCurry | May 19, 2014 | Marriage, Relationships
My wife and I have been scrimping for a while. We’ve always measured abundance in terms of shopping. In a stable financial situation, my wife can, on a whim, buy a shirt at Target. When things are going well, she can buy two shirts at Target. Right now the...
by Bill McCurry | May 5, 2014 | Communication, Humor, Love, Marriage
Sometimes I need to say nice things to my wife. I won’t elaborate on the circumstances, other than to say that some involve electrical explosions, and some involve stains that will remain on the kitchen counter until the end of time. That’s not really the...
by Bill McCurry | Mar 20, 2014 | Acting, Humor, Marriage
I am more ancient than most of my friends. In fact, I could be grandpa to a few of them. For others I’m old enough to be their dad. To the rest I could be the big brother who left home before they hit puberty. That’s all okay, because none of them asks me for candy or...
by Bill McCurry | Feb 17, 2014 | Love, Marriage, Relationships
Whoever said, “If you have lemons, make lemonade,” never met my wife. When you make lemonade, you can drink it, sell it, give it to friends who don’t really want it but take it just to be nice, or leave it in the fridge to become a chemical weapon. In any of those...
by Bill McCurry | Jan 30, 2014 | Communication, Humor, Love, Marriage, Relationships
Speaking as one of the slothful, unemployed wretches draining our nation of its vitality and self-respect, I enjoyed the movie Frozen. My wife and I saw the early showing, because the early tickets cost less, and what else do I have to do in the daytime, really? I’ve...
by Bill McCurry | Jan 23, 2014 | Cats, Humor, Love, Marriage, Relationships
My wife and I subscribe to the “Oncoming Train” theory of relationship management. It’s based on the idea that every so often a gargantuan freight train of a problem will come along and try to obliterate your marriage. I mean a problem like losing your job, or a death...
by Bill McCurry | Jan 3, 2014 | Humor, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Television
My wife has been invited to tea with a bunch of her friends tomorrow. I understand that this event involves drinking tea, eating snacks, and wearing big hats. If you leave out the tea, it sounds a lot like the rodeo to me. Anyway, my wife has been planning to bake...
by Bill McCurry | Dec 31, 2013 | Cats, Entertainment, Marriage, Television
A few weeks ago my wife informed me that a new word has been added to our language, the same language spoken by Winston Churchill and Walter Cronkite. Our society has created the verb “netflix.” One may be said to netflix when one chooses a television program on...
by Bill McCurry | Dec 30, 2013 | Creativity, Humor, Writing
Guilt is for children with sticky fingers and mysterious stains. I declare this to be true in defiance of all religious and sociological thought, because I don’t want to mess with guilt today. I haven’t posted for a month, and I don’t even need a reason, never mind a...
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