A Blog?

     I stuck a question mark after the page title because I'm not sure where this page is going.

     We'll see.

     A blog involves personal writing, right? Opinions, advice, really boring stuff. I'm not sure I'm up to blogging.

     A retired comedy writer-editor-publisher, I still love to laugh. That's why I maintain the HaLife.com Web site. It is primarily a laugh.

     I'm a country boy, reared on a Texas farm. I write with a Texas drawl. I write best with fresh chili stains on my shirt.

     I know more about chicken snakes and dehorning cows than I ever wanted to know.

     I know how to use a Burdizzo. Don't ask.

     Deep in the 1950s, to escape the scorpions and the cotton sacks, I ran away to college to become a journalist. To pay college expenses and to eat, I became a disc jockey.

     In the city they pay you to play music. Is this a great world or what?

      After college, newspapers didn't want me bad enough, so I stayed in radio. I was a news director for six years in Dallas, back in the days when radio was serious about news.

      Writing jokes was more fun.

      Paper was cheap, so I began publishing a humor service, a newsletter, for anyone who wanted to be funny. Several well-known comedians, dozens of professional public speakers, and deejays in almost every English-speaking city on Earth and vicinity kept me publishing for almost 30 years.

      So here I am, retired -- with a Web site and 30 years of foolishness on cheap paper.

      Much of the humor on HaLife.com is from Contemporary Comedy, my comedy newsletter. I still write a few lines each day for "Laughs Today" because I enjoy it and, judging from the daily page traffic, many others also like it.

      In the coming months, some of the pages on the Web site will disappear.

      I'm retired! I don't have to work every day anymore. If there is something you really use regularly, let me know. We'll try to keep the most popular pages.

     Right now, "Trivia Today" is the most popular section.

     I add new pages to the site every week. I'm still a journalist and news is still important.

     This "blog" may or may not last. I'm thinking I might do some personal stuff in my areas of  expertise. I'm just not sure if anyone is interested in how not to treat a cow for screw worms. Also, since it involves a Coke bottle, I need to check on the legal ramifications before I do that one.

     Maybe I should just skip the farm stuff and concentrate on grandparenting. I have the world's greatest granddaughter.

     Or church.

     I'm a Southern Baptist. That should be good for some wild personal blogs.

     We'll see.