Category Archives: Very Personal

The Jump Shot

One day, two elderly men were talking about their favorite sport, basketball.
“I wonder if there’ll be basketball in heaven?” Ed asked.
“Of course there will,” Henson responded, “or it wouldn’t be heaven.”
Not long after that, Ed passed away; then, one night while Henson, was sleeping, Ed appeared in all his radiant glory- in a bright light [...]

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Mayonnaise and Coffee

One day a conversation took place between the husband and the wife.
The wife was not in a very happy disposition that morning and so she complained:
“You think so much of your old game you don’t even remember when you were married.”
The husband calmly replied: “Of course I do, my dear; it was the day I [...]

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Happy Father’s Day

“My father did not tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it,” says Clarence Budinton Kelland.
This is why I am so careful. I know that my children may not believe 100% I say but they certainly believe 100% I do. The best thing I can leave my children is [...]

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What is a Father?

Somebody wrote this material and I simply added a little side comments of my own.
What is a father?
A father is a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.
He growls when he feels good and laughs very loud when he is scared half-to-death. He needs to be a picture of strength even though he [...]

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A Short Elevator Ride

A career military man, who had retired as a Master Sergeant, was telling the new recruits how he handled officers during his years of service.
“It didn’t matter a hoot if he was a full bird colonel, Major General, an Admiral, or what! I always told those guys exactly where to get off.”
“Wow, you must have [...]

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Control What You Think

Aboard a flight from L.A. to New York, Grandma Esther was taking her very first flight.
They had only been aloft a few minutes when the elderly lady complained to the stewardess that her ears were popping.
The girl smiled and gave the older woman some chewing gum, assuring her that many people experienced the same discomfort. [...]

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Principles For Tenacity

Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven. Beethoven’s music teacher said, “As a composer he’s hopeless.” The great inventor Thomas Edison did not do well in school either. His teachers thought he was stupid. F. W. Woolworth couldn’t get a job. Merchants said he didn’t [...]

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A Secretary’s Rules for Her Boss

One time the boss became upset and talked to his secretary.
Boss says: Every time I want you, you’re on the phone, Miss Gonzales!
Secretary says: They were all business calls, sir.
“Oh really?” says the boss. “Well, in the future don’t address my clients as darling.”…. oops!
In another office the boss was giving the secretary [...]

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Is Your Boss a Jerk?

The boss was complaining in our staff meeting the other day that he wasn’t getting any respect. Later that morning he went to a local sign shop and bought a small sign that read:
“I’m the Boss!” He then taped it to his office door.
Later that day when he returned from lunch, he found that [...]

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Do Not Ask “Why Me?”

The meaning and the name Arthur Ashe to many young people is simply a label attached to a pair of a world famous tennis shoes brand. But Arthur Ashe the tennis player was respected for his gentle-manliness and his commitment to his faith.
Stricken with AIDS because of an infected blood transfusion he had during a [...]

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