• Long ago and far, far away in another world called the 1960s a small boy had a Christmas that the man from a much later and much different world [...]

  A Christmas Story

  4 December 2013
• Life is a funny thing, you know? I was thinking about my dad today. I was remembering when he turned 40 years old. I would have been five years [...]

  On Being 50

  20 September 2011
• Fresh Cut Grass, the Buzz of Bees, and Baseball! Posted by V. T. Eric Layton on Apr 6, 2010 It must be getting close to summertime! I don’t [...]

  Fresh Cut Grass, the Buzz of Bees, and Baseball! (Revisited)

  7 August 2011
• Now for something a little lighter… This is a story that I wrote a few years ago. It’s about an Easter egg hunt that my mom arranged [...]

  The Easter Egg Hunt

  12 April 2011

• A little story about my mom. On a spring day in 1925 in the small town of Avon Park, Florida, a lady by the name of Mary gave birth to a [...]

  Lois

  9 March 2011
• My father used to say that no man was an island. I never subscribed to that baloney. I was always pretty much a loner. I didn’t need anyone [...]

  You Can’t Do It Alone

  14 February 2011
• While driving around the other day, my brother commented in passing that he could not understand how atheists could live their lives without the [...]

  Life Without an Afterlife

  4 February 2011
• There’s a big old oak tree out in my front yard that’s probably almost 100 years old. It was there when my father bought this property and [...]

  The Oak Tree

  17 January 2011

• The baseball world lost one of its legends today… George Lee “Sparky” Anderson. There was no other like him. When I heard this [...]

  R.I.P. Sparky Anderson

  4 November 2010
• My dad left this world on a cloudy fall day back in 1986. I miss him every day. This is about him… Henry On a cool spring day in 1927 a [...]

  Henry – Thoughts of My Dad

  3 November 2010