Here’s where to click if you want to begin at Chapter One Here’s our boy, Manley Miller, 18 years ago on a Wednesday night, preaching his first sermon!

Oh wait. I just remembered that one time I did fear for my life.    It was while I lived on the southern coast of Spain. I was a member of The American Club in Fuengirola. Funny thing about The American Club, it had hardly any Americans! Membership was open to any ‘English speakers’.The American Club had British […]

Send indy@WizardOfAds.com an email with the subject line DIGITIZE, and I’ll see if I can convince Manley to do this for us. And the BIG guy in the photo below is Jack Hayden, the baby in the chapter you just read!

These are the basic principles of Chaotic Ad Writing as taught by Wizard Academy: 1. Approach your subject from an unexpected angle. 2. Tell two stories at once, using the relationship between two things as a pattern to reveal the relationship between two other things. 3. Allow the listener to arrive at their own conclusion. In the New […]

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Molokai is the most primitive of the Hawaiian Islands. Only 8,000 people live there. You will find no resorts on Molokai, but her people are among the healthiest and strongest in the world. They always have time to talk to you, no matter who you are, and they glow with contentment. You should see them! […]

Farther We Go (A Capella) Walk Off The EarthI used to runCamp in the backyard andPlay in the sunWe couldn’t wait to grow upMan, we were youngAll of the crazy thingsWe thought we’d becomeWe were so youngBefore mom and dad went grayBefore my friends moved awayI never thought I’d feel this way but I doBefore […]

The Boy Who Answered the Call of Kilimanjaro on Amazon

Read about the historical significance of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Mountains in The Belt of Orion: The Wizard Academy Campus 2000 Years Ago

I’ve changed the question slightly. I will tell you my best worst date. I accepted an invitation to go for a moonlight sail. I had never been on a sailboat and thought it might be fun. I only remember that his last name was Blackwell and that his sailboat was docked at Lake Keystone. Never […]

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Listen to the podcast with Rabbi Sacks or read the transcript at Tim.blog

Another Roadside Attraction on Amazon Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas on Amazon Still Life With Woodpecker on Amazon

These are the basic principles of Chaotic Ad Writing as taught by Wizard Academy: 1. Approach your subject from an unexpected angle.2. Tell two stories at once, using the relationship between two things as a pattern to reveal the relationship between two other things.3. Allow the listener to arrive at their own conclusion. In the New Testament, these […]

No, I have never feared for my life.I have feared for someone else’s life. It was in Barcelona and I was on my way home on the Metro subway.The car was crowded. Several of us were standing near the door. Suddenly a youngish man started screaming at the woman standing next to me. He was […]

Robert Frost died when I was four, so we never met face to face, but throughout my formative years I spent an hour with him every night before I fell asleep.  Robert Frost taught me how to write.  If you will write like Robert Frost, you must approach your subject from an unexpected angle. Few […]

From: Brad WhittingtonDestination: JungleHow to Get There: Run Through Whoa, thought it was a nightmareLord it was so trueThey told me don’t go walking slowThe devil’s on the looseBetter run through the jungleBetter run through the jungleBetter run through the jungleWhoa, don’t look back to seeThought I heard a rumblin’Calling to my nameTwo hundred million […]

The Road Not Taken  BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy […]

God’s Dog I sit with a bag of popcorn and watch the frantic climbers of the ladder of success. The climbers who capture my interest are the ones who consider themselves to be “clever.” But look closely and you’ll see their only “cleverness” is that they are uncommitted and disloyal. Every person is a steppingstone […]

Even more surprising is how long ago this was written:“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”– Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844 – 1900)

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“My family adopted a homeless mutt when I was in the third grade. She slept in my bedroom until the day she died, 10 years later. Pearl was a mellow dog, laid-back and lazy, playful and fun; unless you acted as though you were going to hurt me. Then, in a horrible flash of fur and teeth, playful […]

Everything that can be written about Pearl has been written by my son, Ro.You know him as Roy. His grandkids call him Poobah: Pearl was a bit of a whore.We never kept her in a fenceSo she had puppies at least once a year. She was a good mother. Abandoned in the country, starving,We found […]

Above ground, in the sunlight, grain silos provide much of our daily sustenance.  Below ground, in the darkness, hides another kind of silo.  But it is not the missile silo that is killing us; people are disappearing into the bone-dry quicksand of grain silos in less than 5 seconds. “Once entrapment begins, it happens very […]

My greatest surprise in life was learning that the USA was not respected and even hated by other countries. I always thought “we” were the good guys and that most of the world agreed. It was when I moved to Spain that I learned differently. Conversations with friends from other countries was when I first […]

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He who hesitates is lost.Look before you leap. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.Don’t beat your head against a stone wall. Life is what we make it!What will be, will be. You’re never too old to learn.You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Hitch your wagon to a star.Don’t bite off […]

Above is the version sung by Oliver that became radio-famous in 1969.Below is that same song sung by Bob McGrath on Sesame Street, season 1, episode 3.The last time we experienced this level of civil unrest, the music was a whole lot better.

The boy’s family moved into an old house in the country when he was 5 years old. The first night, there was constant barking from a dog somewhere out back. It was non-stop. Finally, for some peace and quiet, the boy was allowed to bring the dog inside. The small dog was a pitiful sight. She had […]

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There are two types of people in this world: People who like Fords and people who are wrong. The Ford F series has been Canada’s best-selling truck for over fifty-two years. Consistent and dependable. It is everything that a Dodge is not. This Ford can do everything a Chevy can, except randomly catch fire. (Heard […]