Lagniappe's Lair

  Last Thursday was my father's birthday. He'd have been 79 years old. But life seldom works the way we'd like, and I inherited ...

My father would have been 77 today. So in his memory, I took his guns out to shoot them. But I was denied, as the only area shotgun range ...

Four years. Has it only been four years since he left ? It seems like forever. So much has happened in my life that he wasn't here to s...

in 1966, John Wayne starred in El Dorado , basically a remake of his earlier Rio Bravo . Both movies centered around a sheriff and friends b...

Snow. We got 2-3 inches yesterday by the time it stopped. Not much at all, especially compared to the Michigan snowfalls that I remember f...

Today was my father's birthday. He's no longer here, as many of my readers know, but I still think of him a lot, and this post about...

It's been a year to the day since my father passed away after a tough bout with lung cancer. A whole year already. I still miss him an...

First year without my dad. But some things just trigger memories. Like Calvin. I'm thinking that Bill Watterson was looking in our w...

Today is January 7th. My father would have been 71 years old today. I think that I will go down to the local food bank and make a donati...

Sundays kinda suck just a bit these days. For years now, almost every Sunday without fail, my father and I would talk on the phone, one of...

My Dad was always a Detroit Tigers fan. As long as I can remember, he rooted for this team, even when they sucked, which was a lot of season...

One of the things that I'll always remember about my father is his love for certain games, a love which sometimes bordered on an obsessi...

I have my father's guns now, three shotguns. The first one is an Iver Johnson Champion 16 gauge single-shot that he bought back when h...

My father. January 7, 1942 to October 2, 2012. I love you, Pop.

I was at work yesterday when I got the call. "Come home. Now. He's really bad." I've not mentioned it here before, but m...

After arriving in MI on Saturday, I spent some time with my mother, and my nephew, The Spud. I also got together with Aaron from The Shekel ...

Because classic old guys never go out of style. Yeah, he shoots machine guns. So don't mess with him. You can read mor...

Well I didn't get the card off on time again this year, but I figure that this burger commercial from South Africa will do as an accepta...

As a young man growing up, I couldn't help but notice that my father never had much luck with his cars. I think that it began when I was...

Last Sunday, after church, my father and I took my nephew The Spud out for a bit, just to spend some quality "guy time" with him a...