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I am the little drummer boy!

I’ve always been a sucker for puppies.

“What kind of idiot would do that?”        One of my coworkers asked this as he huddled with two others at a laptop computer. They…

By Randy Haglund “Have you ever thought of getting a tattoo?” The question came from a new colleague, one that hadn’t gotten the memo…

By Randy Haglund After 135 miles of pedaling our bicycles up and down long, steep grades in extreme heat, our bikes came to a…

By Randy Haglund Did you ever go through something in your life that seemed bad, but turned out to be good? Fifty-six years ago…

By Randy Haglund The sirens began blaring their warning at noon. They came from every direction. The closest one came from the corner of…

“Wanna skip church?”

It’s been a long time since I got excited about a television program.

By Randy Haglund There are certain dates that you never forget because of a momentous event. November 23, 1963, July 20, 1969[i], September 11,…

By Randy Haglund It seemed like an ordinary night on the streets of Spokane as I did my pizza deliveries. Little did I know…

By Randy Haglund Every now and then you meet someone that carves a memory in your life and affects you forever. Gary Brown was…

Imagine being on an out-of-control streetcar hurtling down a steep incline straight toward a hospital building.

What gets you through your Death Valley Days?

What was your first hourly-paid job?

“I tell, ya, I don’t get no respect.”

Delivering Pizza can be exciting. But sometimes, the excitement was not what I'd bargained for.

By Randy Haglund “Shut the door! Were ya’ born in a barn?” Many a mother has shouted those words, I’m told. My mother almost…

By Randy Haglund                 Ski-jog (skee-jawg)                                 verb ski-jogged, ski-jog·ging to hitch a ride by grabbing a vehicle’s rear bumper and sliding down snowy…

Sometimes, you just snap.

How could such a beloved and inspiring song about the birth of our Savior find its way on to the naughty list?

When I was in High School, Friday nights meant football at Joe A;bi Stadium.

"I'm going to have to shoot you." These ominous words from my eighth grade music teacher sent chills through me,

By Randy Haglund When we were in school our teachers tried to convince us that the changes in season were caused by something to…

By Randy Haglund I first listened to the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Album when I was still ten years old. Listen…

While I ate lunch at a Subway Restaurant today I witnessed an oddity. A twenty-something woman sat alone at a table across the aisle…

I’ve written a book. If you’ve been reading my stories you know that they are about life as I remember it. But for the…

Were you ever afraid of the dark. I was.

Those little red fetuses were beautiful to me. Four miracles.

"We have four Heartbeats." These words came to my wife, Lisa, at the ultrasound just over twenty years ago, and sent our lives into…

Local boy stuns sporting world in one moment playing church league softball.

“Not so close to the television,” my mom said. “You’ll ruin your eyesight.”

I’ve never been a cop, but I felt like one that night as I radioed in.

“This,” Craig asked, “is your shortcut?”