The 3 Word Journal

David and Jared, two 7-year-old boys, were having an animated conversation while playing outside. Holding a very small green turtle, the kind you buy at discounat stores for a few dollars, David said to his young friend, “You sure are lucky to have a turtle.”  After a long pause, David sighed and said, “All I [...]

It was a beautiful summer day and my friends and I were looking forward to a fun afternoon of water skiing while I was home on leave from the Army. We had a powerful boat to pull us down the river, but our skis left a little to be desired. One was a slalom ski [...]

  When things get really hard, I often recall an experience I had while attending college many years ago in Idaho.  Because of a slight money shortage, my roommates and I got jobs in a potato cellar during harvest time.  Our job was to take a large pitch fork and shovel about 35 pounds of potatoes [...]