Shail’s Nest

I have a roly-poly brother in law. Don’t let those eyes pop out. I am in no mortal danger for making that statement.

For one he stays across the ocean in far away lands.
For another I am a good year older to him and am confident [...]

Women cannot read maps, they say, and men do not ask for directions. I cannot vouchsafe for the veracity of the first part of this statement, the opportunity of testing it having not risen in this two score and odd years of my life on Planet Earth. I am willing to admit though that perhaps [...]

Every week, there is a mad scramble, a veritable race between dog and woman, to see who gets to greet the Lord and Master first as he arrives home for the weekend. This is about one such weekend….

The Wife, as is usual, is sitting in front of the computer, brows knit, a thoughtful look on [...]

What’s in a name?? Nothing perhaps. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet as the Bard would have it. So I remain I in spite of the many names I am known by. One of my friends recently remarked that I seemed to have as many as a thousand names. Maybe not [...]