Per Charlie Melton, Pie Aficionado
Everyone says find what you like to do, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. Ergo, pie is my new profession. [Read more...]
Charlie’s Voice – Laugh-Guards
Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
A car needs a gauge to show how much fuel is left; similarly, laughter can be used as a barometer to indicate how much happiness exists in a relationship (Comedian Yakov Smirnoff). [Read more...]
Charlie’s Voice – Right To Build
Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
My teenage Grandson, who considers himself omnipotent, has trouble keeping his car’s trash off my lawn. I routinely pick up the cans, wrappers, and cups and put them in his underwear drawer. I hope that it becomes one of those charming family traditions. [Read more...]
Charlie’s Voice – We Love This Country
Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
Only 36% of respondents aged 18 to 24 said they were very or extremely proud to be American, a new Issues & Insights/TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics survey found. (Charlie McCarthy/Newsmax).
My first reaction to this news tidbit is “Who cares?” This demographic isn’t fully invested in the country. You might say, they don’t have “skin in the game”. [Read more...]
Charlie’s Voice – Our Great Loss
Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
We have to stop this madness.
I scan lots of news sites every morning. I rarely see news about someone that I know. Today, I saw one that broke my heart. [Read more...]
Charlie”s Voice – Strange Forces At Work
Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
When I was a short, fat, child (before I was a short, fat, adult) I assembled a bait shop and had a grand opening at the end of our lane. I had all sizes of crawdads, worms, and even the coveted Catalpa worms. Since we lived more than a mile from the nearest hard road, I had little traffic and no customers. It was the first of many business failures. I’d say that forces I didn’t understand affected me.
It’s like when my dear Grandmother Fern convinced me to grow turnips to make lots of money. I planted the seeds along the edges of the fields. I was unable to sell even a pound of the bumper crop. I figured the potato cartel ruined my dreams. It was a force I didn’t understand. [Read more...]
Charlie’s Voice – Men: Suffering in Silence
Charlie Melton
By Charlie Melton
Ten year old Lucas is prone on the couch. He can’t move. His jaw is slack, as he groans. “Mom, I can’t breathe through my nose. I need medicine. I’m really sick.” Mom was not impressed. She even went so far as to call him a baby. [Read more...]
Charlie’s Voice: Rat-Boy and Mouse Mutt
By Charlie Melton
I confess, I do not like mice. I do not like them once or twice. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them in my hair.
You could call me mouse-o-phobic. That phobia extends to most rodents. They’re nasty little plague-producers. They can squeeze through a microscopic opening and their huge teeth can shred a carotid artery. They’re capable of changing the most harmless germ into a disease so lethal it can eradicate life as we know it. That’s why scientists use them in labs all over the world. Did you really think that “Pinkie and the Brain” was fiction? It is not. [Read more...]