Lucky Garvin

LUCKY GARVIN: Saying Goodbye To Lola

Our Lola appears to be deep in sleep on her favorite corner of the sofa, her head resting on out-stretched paws. But to our sorrow, this is not sleep. The...

LUCKY GARVIN: THE BREAK-IN  [from years ago]

Darlin’ wife Sabrina is under the delusion that our pet Doberman Onyx is a guard-dog....

LUCKY GARVIN: The Tale Of The Ugly Christmas Tree

All Christmas trees are beautiful aren’t they? My wife, Sabrina, looked at the artificial Christmas...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Driver

It was nearing Christmas this year; a hard-working Mexican-American family man was driving his fully-loaded...

LUCKY GARVIN: 3 Wildlife Memories

While there are sorrows in the rehabbing of injured, orphaned, or diseased wildlife, there are...

The Somewhat Wondrous Adventure of Martin Luther

I have recently come across ‘The Great Courses.’ These are DVD’s on every conceivable subject, exhorted by educators who specialize in various topics. The specific...

Transitional Blessings

I believe there to be a distinction between a completed and a transitional blessing. A completed blessing might be the birth of a baby,...

Showing Off Never a Good Idea

There was a time in my life that I was an incurable show-off. There were reasons for it, but I need not go into...

An Unrecorded Tragedy

As a part of the apparently endless ‘Honey Do’ list, Sabrina recently asked me to clean out the dozen or so Bluebird nesting houses...

Life Evolves / Revolves in Seconds and Minutes

Somewhere in my library, God knoweth not where, is a book of pictures which intends to show the expanse of our physical universe from...

Life With Sabrina

As a newly married man you might suppose ‘Let’s’ means ‘We,’ Not so, my man; so very not so. Now to be fair, my...