Knee Deep

Have you read the latest issue of Dogue Magazine? Dogs are now capable of doing things like keeping pace with a Tesla, sniffing out milk products that have expired, and making bank transactions, to name only a few. Dogs will soon hold the key to an even higher

calling and help us get to that transcendent existence where pet peeves will be a thing of the past.

Normally, when the subject of doorknobs comes up, it is because someone has locked themselves in a gas station bathroom and can’t get out without screaming HELP! In my case, talking to doorknobs is a skill, that according to my daughter anyway, I have been fine tuning my entire lifetime. Now, it is determining my very legacy.

There is absolutely no connection between pirates and cement

contractors, but when you keep an address book like mine, logic goes right over the railing and into the raging sea. In fact, if you’re looking for anything between A and Z, you might as well be sailing the ocean without a rudder, which as it turns out, may not be such a bad idea…

but when you are in a crowd of people singing It Is Well With My Soul, things seem to be as warm as toast. Our souls may long for renewal in these frigid days of polar vortexes, but maybe we can find warmth and revival... even a touch of "relevance" ...singing in unison together as one beautiful, intentional voice.

Sometimes we can get stuck on the simplest of resolution in a new year. In our case, what is stuck is in our oven amount to an embarrassing culinary disaster that may take the next twenty years, or a stint in prison, to remove. I'm calling 2024 The Year of the Oven.

coming year of 2024. No wonder they say your mouth is the strongest muscle in the human body! And, what if I told you that you could eliminate all but fifty-five of those words and gain an extra five months in the coming new year? Well, I assure you I’ve picked my words carefully in this podcast…

relatives that are starving and blue, snuggle in with your kids and listen to how the uproarious Slap Family overcame their grumpies and made Big Slappy Stew. There's some wild Slap characters here and enough slap-soup stew for at least sixty-two, and if you aren't grumpy, possibly you!

Going back into the archives of Knee Deep to play an old favorite from a past Christmas... The holiday season is creeping up on us like the second hand in a scary movie. No one hears the ticking until the camera zeroes in on the gothic clock and the last few seconds tick off in slow motion. Will we make it out of the holiday Twilight Zone before that clock strikes twelve? We may, but it will take some careful maneuvering at the grocery...

Start the countdown! It's twelve days til Christmas, and if you feel like you are on thin ice, I've come up with another Ten Tidings to help you skate smoothly through the season. Renegade apples? Moonwalking? Yep, they are all part of the package I've tied up for you with a bow in this episode for you and your kin!

We get attached to some of the most ridiculous things in life, and one of them is our parking spots. We like to think we are a generous

lot, but our cars are sneaky as they slide nonchalantly into “their” space and claim it as their own. We might want to be a bit more cautious as we pull into that pole position because someone, someone special, may have our number…