THE ADVENTURES OF JJ PICKLETOES

I have just started to read a new book series.   When you read certain books, you expect certain things.  I am reading the first book in the Hardy Boys series, The Tower Treasure.   We can talk about Franklin W. Dixon another time.  There are about 58 books in the…

Even at my young age, I know that some things are certain.  Every morning the sun comes up in the east. It doesn’t really come up, the earth turns so it seems that way, but you know what I mean.  Every day the sun goes down in the west.  Here…

What are the odds?  This question has got me wondering, pondering really, on the subject.  Here are a few facts, more  factish than fact perhaps, but information all the same.  Did you know that your odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 15,300, these are such small odds,…

Have you ever wanted something for a long time?  I have, and I know other people have as well.  My Dad got one before he could use his and my Grandpa got one before he could use his as well.  I have been waiting for one, my whole life.  Especially…

What are those things that Mom is taking out of the closet?  One is black and the other is multicoloured like a Picasso painting.  I like the multicoloured one better, it seems like you would be a fun person if you had one like that.  And you won’t lose it…

   This must have been how they felt.  Those brave people leaving their nice warm homes in search of adventure and fortune.  This is me now.  They say that there aren’t explorers now like in the old days.  When they asked if I wanted to go, I said “Why not,…

Questions.  Questions.  I have so many questions.  Don’t we all have questions?  I am just young, and I have lots of questions, just image how many questions I will have when I am older.  You know the saying, “the more you know, the more you realize how little you know.” …

There are a couple of things that happened this past week that I want to talk about.  Firstly.  I have only seen it this bad twice,   in my whole life.   That is how bad it was, I have only seen it this bad twice in my whole life.  I…

THEY tried to tell me that it wasn’t a good idea.   What do THEY know and who are THEY anyway?  And, why do THEY think that THEY know.  There are always going to be those kind of people, ones that think they what is best for you.  Am I…

Exactly.   What am I going to wear?  There seems to be this buzz in the air around me these last few weeks.  You know when you can feel a buzz in the air.  You can just feel it.  I can feel it.  I am not really sure what it…