Posts Tagged ‘christmas’
From My Left Hand To You
Tuesday night I was sitting at my desk upstairs when I heard my youngest scream downstairs in the den. Dads instinctively know the difference between a he’s-not-sharing-with-me scream, an I-merely-stubbed-my-toe-but-am-going-for-the-Oscar scream and the dreaded I-was-just-tossed-into-a-hard-piece-of-furniture-by-my-big-brother scream. What I heard was the latter variety.
Gresham (eight) had hoisted Penelope (five) in the air on the soles of… 
Christmas In North Carolina
I’m in North Carolina more than any other state. There are folks there who’ve been coming to my shows so long that they’ve literally heard every song I’ve ever written performed live (and every story and joke too). Poor poor souls.
Last night in North Carolina, when I spotted these longtime listeners in the crowd I… 
One Of Us
Every great story has a villain or two and the Christmas story is no different. Caesar Augustus is the reason a very pregnant Mary had to travel to Bethlehem to be counted by government census takers.
He wasn’t always called Augustus. At birth he was given the name Octavius and a handful of heady titles to… 


