Dave Jones

A number of years ago a buddy of mine was turning 40. His wife gathered his dearest friends and arranged a night on the town for us to share with her husband.  She contracted a limo to take us around Washington, DC, we went to a great dinner, out for drinks – the whole “sha-bang”. After many stops and probably as many drinks, a couple of the guys thought it would be fun to stop into a lesbian bar. I wasn’t sure why but it seemed to some of the guys to be an expected novelty.  So they told the...

Years ago, a popular comedian—probably George Carlin, though I might be mistaken—joked with his audience, “Do you know why adults always ask kids what they want to be when they grow up? It’s because they’re looking for ideas!” That question and answer always got a laugh, but it also made me think. I don’t remember exactly when I first heard it, but after laughing, I realized there’s some truth in that joke. Adults aren’t really asking kids for options; maybe many of us don’t truly know what...

As the story goes, there was a little girl watching her mother prepare the food on Easter morning. She’d help where she could but watched intently everything her mother did.  When it came time for her mother to prepare the Easter Ham, the little girl noticed that her mother bore down and cut a good-sized portion off the end of the ham.  The mother then placed the ham in a pan and put it in the oven.   The little girl was perplexed by this and so she asked her mother, “Mom, why’d you cut that...