Author: aAjcbzoz

Thar She Blows!

Dear Editor, The Saturday paper listed The Wager as the current #1 non-fiction bestseller, and I’m enjoying the true story, a frightening account of life

aAjcbzoz 02/02/2024
Christianity

Everywhere We Look

The Big Guy is always available. Reminders are everywhere we look. But we must first let Him in. He believes in our freedom to choose

aAjcbzoz 01/14/2024

AR-15s Versus Viagra

If you are too weak to handle a large-caliber, bolt-action rifle or join the military, there is always Viagra.

aAjcbzoz 08/12/2023
Together We Stand, Divided We Fall
bb king

The Thrill Is Gone (BB King Cover)

This cover of the BB King classic is dedicated to Facebook, Fox News, and the Republican Party, which I used to admire when truth and

aAjcbzoz 07/01/2023

Jimbo

Wrote this song on 6-5-23, the twenty-first anniversary of my brother’s death. Miss him. ~ James Mitchell Scott 10/8/59 – 6/5/2002 ~

aAjcbzoz 06/16/2023

How Many More Rolls?

Verse 1 Woke up this morning With coffee on my mind, But a bad boy in the pipeline Put my plans in a bind. When

aAjcbzoz 12/11/2022

Dear Diary (Election Day 2022)

I’ve never shared an entry from my personal diary before, but today I got up and read the newspaper and discovered: On November 8, 1923,

aAjcbzoz 11/08/2022

There Was a Time

In high school, I worked two summers on the Hennepin Canal, a relic of the 19th Century connecting the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers allowing mules

aAjcbzoz 07/26/2022

Butt Shooting Reported

Looked like the GOP would gather new seats in the mid-terms.  They had it nearly sewn up. But then they stripped constitutional rights and freedoms

aAjcbzoz 07/11/2022

This Crazy Liberal Dude …

  You should read it! It’s a gruesome yet beautiful, redeeming love story about this crazy homeless liberal dude with long hair, one set of

aAjcbzoz 07/07/2022

Full Circle

Growing up on a hog farm, I saw hogs eat each other.  Especially when the “lunch” hog was sick, injured, or different in any way.

aAjcbzoz 06/18/2022

A True Story

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aAjcbzoz 04/16/2022

A Cry from Behind Prison Walls

Dear Readers, I teach creative writing two days a month at a local state prison: Northeast Correctional Complex, Mountain City, Tennessee. I wrote a column

aAjcbzoz 03/09/2022

La Fortuna, Costa Rica

Fifteen years ago, a close friend of ours in Southern Illinois, Dana Simpson – a dedicated nurse who devoted thirty years to caring for others

aAjcbzoz 02/02/2022

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum

Motorcycling is a genetic thread running through my family’s history. Grandfather Lawrence “Goofy” Scott delivered moonshine during Prohibition on a 1920 Harley Model J, bragging

aAjcbzoz 12/13/2021

Biblical Justice?

One of our church pastors – we’re blessed with a tag-team, a hard-working couple with big hearts, and vivacious children – decided to make a

aAjcbzoz 11/06/2021

Jesus and Germs

Dear Readers, Here’s the latest cut, inspired by a motorcycle ride through lovely Western North Carolina.  Thanks for listening, praying, and washing your hands! Jesus

aAjcbzoz 10/05/2021

Balance

We complain, blame God for Pain. Forget to give thanks for Pleasure. We suffer floods, curse His name, Forget to praise the sprouting Grain. Our

aAjcbzoz 08/20/2021

Momma Mamilla

Giorgia – a graduate school girlfriend – elevated her quiet nature into an imminent road hazard whenever we strolled down the sidewalk.  Male drivers –

aAjcbzoz 08/09/2021
The Pisgah Inn
alt-conservative

Blue Ridge Parkway: Spring 2021

Travel may be the one expense that makes us richer. Although it is often fraught with short-term displeasure, the long-term effect – if you survive

aAjcbzoz 06/11/2021

Grace in a Mail Bag

A letter and booklet arrived in the mail this morning from the little Midwestern town where I grew up, the village mortician reminding me that

aAjcbzoz 04/29/2021

Opioid Deaths Sky Rocket

When Jellybeaners appeared in 2017 the overall death toll linked to opioids was 40,000 Americans per year. Now? It’s topping 50,000. Here are the current

aAjcbzoz 03/23/2021

Political Potato Heads

Have you ever noticed how everything is political now?  Even Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.   So let’s focus on what’s important!  Plastic!  Tater heads! Mr.

aAjcbzoz 03/01/2021

Pearl

 Pearl was my first recording, issued seven years ago (4-2014). Verse 1 Justin was tired of it all, though he was only seventeen. Little Queenie

aAjcbzoz 02/16/2021

The Tongues

You saw. With your own eyes. How lies. Allow crazies to thrive.

aAjcbzoz 01/29/2021

Where Are We Now?

Where are truth and love? Where are we now? Where has America gone? Where are we now? Is this the swan song? Where have the

aAjcbzoz 01/12/2021

Once Again

We are a beacon.  Once again. Verse 1 People sat on their hands in ’16.Didn’t care much for the Democratic Queen.But now their eyes are

aAjcbzoz 11/23/2020
1979

Famous People I Almost Met

Lynyrd Skynyrd When I was twenty-three, I found myself unemployed and living in my girlfriend’s room in her parents’ beautiful brick home on the South

aAjcbzoz 11/12/2020
A run on guns.
future

Viral Humans

Whether we buy into the idea that humans are a virus or not doesn’t matter. What matters is how we react to the situation. 

aAjcbzoz 03/17/2020

The Lifers’ Club

The church I attend is extremely generous with its time, talent, and resources, but it wasn’t always this way.  When my wife and I joined in 1990, many of the congregants were “intellectuals” from the university (myself included) who thought highly of the impoverished, but didn’t do much to help them physically. We threw money at them, mostly.  Kept our distance.

aAjcbzoz 03/05/2020

Standing Tall

A certified rock star, whose stage apparel and song lists hang in Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame, graced Johnson City’s Down Home Saturday night

aAjcbzoz 02/20/2020

Big Pharma Throws Shade

My son and his fiancé asked us over for a tasty mid-morning outdoor breakfast –– her parents were visiting on their way to Texas ––

aAjcbzoz 06/28/2019

Photographing Faith

Our church family now publishes amateur photographs — scenes inspired by the Holy Spirit — on its social media site.  The response has been heartwarming,

aAjcbzoz 06/03/2019

A Plumber, A Marshmallow, and Love

I’m now teaching a creative writing class to an interesting group of folk who spend large portions of their day reading and scribbling, so they’re

aAjcbzoz 03/11/2019

Cabin Fever

My energetic wife and I retired years ago, and we’re good at being together. A big house helps, and we both like holing up in

aAjcbzoz 02/18/2019

Italy Captures the Gang of Ten

Grape-land never made our bucket list. We assumed it was hot, humid, dirty, overrun with tourists, smelly, and rife with Gypsies rifling pockets. All that’s

aAjcbzoz 12/11/2018

The Perfect Prison

When I was twenty-three, I found myself unemployed, and living in my girlfriend’s room in her parents’ beautiful brick house on the South Side of

aAjcbzoz 09/05/2018

Tribal Connections

Whenever my life begins to feel too “cushy” – which is often since I’m a spoiled American Baby Booming corpulent white male with a loving/doting

aAjcbzoz 04/10/2018
Train Wreck
alt-conservative

Trash Talk

You can’t make up this sort of thing. People would laugh and throw disgusting objects at you for inserting blatant — although natural — irony

aAjcbzoz 02/02/2018

Crawling Out of Health Care Hell

Our current health care mess is more a political debacle than a substantial challenge to the intellect when it comes to solvency. Morally? We can do

aAjcbzoz 06/28/2017

The Two-Tailed American Taliban

The polarization of America continues at a rapid pace, but we weren’t always at each other’s throats. Following WWII, soldiers of both political parties returned

aAjcbzoz 04/20/2017

Opioids in the News

Dear Readers, Today I’m simply re-posting recent articles — written by others — directly related to the opioid epidemic, which is the subject of my

aAjcbzoz 04/11/2017
Drug addiction

Opioids and Obituaries

The motivation behind Jellybeaners — to shine light upon the opioid epidemic taking Americans at the rate of fifty per day — remains front and center in the news, and burns

aAjcbzoz 12/10/2016