A Passing Grade

     To all my blogging friends.  Be sure and check out my children's book, A Passing Grade: The Potter Twins of Bodcaw Creek.  It is posted with Amazon as an ebook, but Amazon has a free app which can be used to read the book on your cell phone. 
     Simple click on the book below.   If viewing my blog from you phone you might have to page to the web version and click on it to see this book and my other books which show on the web version as an ebook with Amazon.  
  
     A more detail description of this book for ages around 9 to 12 follows:

 A delightful story woven around two ordinary twin boys born and raised in the south where life is simple. Trouble should have been their middle names. Their misadventures find them in constant trouble at home and at school. Every event will leave the reader laughing as they turn the pages, wondering what will happen next. As each new adventure unfolds the boys seem to get deeper into trouble until they realize there comes a time when the truth serves them best. Every adventure leads to a positive learning experience; an experience that develops into love and thoughtfulness toward others. Nothing could delight young children more than the mystery found and solved in the Bodcaw Creek community as well as the various hunting episodes interwoven among each chapter. Within the pages there is humor which both the young and the old can enjoy.
    

https://www.amazon.com/Passing-Grade-Potter-Twins-Bodcaw-ebook/dp/B06XYVC61T/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491997412&sr=8-1&keywords=a+passing+grade

School is Back

     School is now in full force!  Teachers are busy. Really, really busy!  They are trying to get their classrooms in order, attending meetings, preparing schedules, calling parents, and working more hours than the majority of people realize, all for the sake of teaching other people's children.
     Since my daughter is a dedicated teacher, I see what goes into the school year, and I do not take their careers lightly; however, you will find below a few comical excerpts from two books I co-authored which can be found as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle site.  Just click the link provided:

Book- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Morgue  (true humorous short stories)
 https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Thing-Happened-Way-Morgue-ebook/dp/B01D6PIZNY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1458506556&sr=1-1&keywords=A+Funny+Thing+Happened+on+the+way+to+the+Morgue#nav-subnav

    In the days when many of the rural school board members did not even have a high school education, a particular board member, who did not have any appreciation for the finer aspects of the teaching of grammar and punctuation, came to school one day and wrote upon the chalk board, "The board member thinks the teacher is a fool."  As he completed his writing, the teacher took the piece of chalk, stepped to the board, and corrected the sentence with a couple of commas, resulting in the following: "The board member, thinks the teacher, is a fool."
    
Here's another:

     In the mountains of northern Arkansas or Southern Missouri sometime around the turn of the last century a man applied for a teaching position in the rural school.  The school board asked, "How do you teach geography?  Do you teach that the earth is round or flat?"  The teacher responded, "I am prepared to teach it either way."  He got the job. 

    Then here is another from my So? Whatever! 365 Laughs and Devotionals with Foreword by Mike Huckabee:
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     A third grader was giving a demonstration speech at school using items from home. Realizing they had left the items needed for the speech at home, the mom rushed back to get the stuff.  The apple, the orange, and the raisins were gone.  "Oh," said the dad, "I had that stuff for breakfast."  Reporting back with an explanation and apology, the teacher said, "Gee, that's first. 'My dad ate my
homework.' "

     Family members are full of surprises, but it is good to establish a pattern that can be recognized in daily life.  Parents should want their children to expect prayer at meal times, recognize when the alarm goes off in the morning that time will be spent in Bible study and prayer time with God.  Getting up on Sunday and going to church should not be a question.  When the Christmas tree is put out, the family will talk about the birth of Jesus, and when Easter comes, they will talk about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Children should be given family traditions revolving around their love for Jesus; knowing the Holy Spirit leads, intercedes for them, and guides them throughout their lives.  There is a saying that is good, "A family that prays together stays together."

1 Timothy 3:4  "He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect."

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Morgue

Below is just one of the many humorous true stories from the book, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Morgue, written by myself and co-author, Charles Jones. This book is on Amazon as an ebook and can be accessed by clicking on the cover page on the right side of my blog.  

From ashes to dirt….

     Humor is where you find it, and sometimes it shows up at odd times and in strange places.

Working under houses, normally, is not a place where you find anything humorous.  You often find dampness, dirt, spiders, snakes or perhaps even a skunk.  However, in their own right, none of those are funny.  Usually, if you are under a house, you are either a repairman, plumber, or in a service- related occupation.  You have a job to do, and once done, get out as quickly as you can.

     At this particular location a man, whom we shall call David, was crawling around treating the house for termites.  As he was moving around under the house he discovered a brass box that attracted his attention.  He opened the box to discover the only contents inside was dust and dirt.  He dumped the contents with the intention of taking the box with him when he left.

     David came out from under the house about lunch time, and the lady of the house asked if he had seen a brass box under the house.  David said, “Yes, it is setting on one of the sills under the house.”

The lady of the house then informed him that the contents of the box were the remains of her deceased husband.

     David lightly began to dust imagined ashes from his clothes, then crawled back under the house and refilled the brass box with dirt which he scooped up from beneath the house.