by Brenda Erb Roberts | Nov 15, 2024 | The Lighter Side |
Car Problems Create Other Car Problems I have car problems. It’s making funny noises. If you own a car, you’ve undoubtedly heard them. They might be scraping, squealing, thumping, banging or any other audible harbinger of doom. But you also know that ignoring them...
by Brenda Erb Roberts | Oct 15, 2024 | The Lighter Side |
Image from Canva.com Cultural Woes—Typos, Autocorrect and Crazy Texts It’s a modern problem—typos, autocorrect and crazy text messages. When the technology wizards intervene or choose not to, messages can be hilarious, garbled, or embarrassingly inappropriate. In the...
by Brenda Erb Roberts | Sep 23, 2024 | The Lighter Side |
What Happened in the Dead of Night? It wasn’t a dark and stormy night; it was just dark. And I slammed into an immovable object in the dead of night. Had an intruder erected a brick wall while I was sleeping, and if so, why? No, it was a middle-of-the-night,...
by Brenda Erb Roberts | Aug 20, 2024 | The Lighter Side |
The Site of My Folly, But I Didn't Go to Jail! It began innocently—it just didn’t end that way. I am a rule follower. I don’t disregard instructions and orders and surreptitiously disobey if I don’t like them. But this time, I openly flaunted the regulations. However,...
by Brenda Erb Roberts | Jul 15, 2024 | The Lighter Side |
Can and Should Are Different Concepts, But We Made It Here! Have you ever trusted a GPS to guide you along the most direct route? How did that work out for you? My husband and I learned an excellent life lesson on our recent vacation: can and should are different...
by Brenda Erb Roberts | Jun 14, 2024 | The Lighter Side |
Are There Dead People Down There? Meet The Players It was an average Sunday morning. In my household, Sunday mornings often include a special breakfast if my husband or I aren’t required to be at church early to serve in some capacity. But this wasn’t my household. It...