Sometimes you really don’t need a reason to post a picture.  It speaks for itself.
Still…
My sister Becki has an evil cat.  His name is “Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.”  Everyone calls him “Scream” for short.  He is the bane of my sister’s existence.  It’s the only creature on God’s Earth meaner than she is.  I think they [...]

My wife and I celebrate two anniversaries.  Our wedding date on November 17th, and the day we met, March 18th, 1988
I was a bit more than two months into my breakup with my ex-wife and was working for a temp agency in Milwaukee.  I was waiting for my bus when it started to rain — [...]

Last night I lay awake thinking about a road not taken, a road that I should have taken, a road I can never take again.
It was six years ago today, March 14, 2004.  Also a Sunday.  I was leaving Rhinelander, Wis., to take a new job as program director and talk show host at WHBL [...]

This self-publishing thing is freakin’ GREAT!
Now I’ve published a paperback that you can buy TODAY for $20.
“Hunky Dunk” is a book I wrote back in 1998.  It was inspired by sitting around with my brother Jack talking about old family stories.  The book is dedicated to his memory, and I plan to live up to [...]

Had a nice long chat with my only remaining brother today.  I won’t call him my little brother cuz, like me, he’s big and solid as a house.
Dr. Joe is a college professor in New Mexico.  We don’t talk nearly often enough.
We talked about the current family kerfuffle, and I elicited a belly laugh from [...]

I walked back to the bedroom for some reason earlier today, and this was the sight that greeted me.
They were EVER so comfortable.  Raven raised her eyes to look at me, and right away I was reminded of that old adage…
“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.”
Now, I don’t know if my girlies are familiar with that adage, [...]

UPDATE:  A Big Mr. Hanky “Howdy Ho!” to my special friend in Madison, Wis. who keeps checking this page, and checking it, and checking it, and checking it… but shouldn’t you be looking for a job?  Shithead?
The guy who is marrying my sister tomorrow just sent me this charming e-mail.
Oh Billy BOY! – Or just [...]

Somewhere in America today, a dog is uncomfortable.  But not here.  Not at our house.
So many people mistreat their doggies.  Many of our hillbilly neighbors who have dogs leave them outside and in pens so they can bark and bark and shiver in the cold.
That’s not how we do things here at the Schmalfeldt Home [...]