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The Sound of Gravel and Other Things You Don’t Fool With
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com There’s a sound a man don’t forget, even if his memory’s gotten so thin it couldn’t hold water in a washtub. I’m talkin’ about the sound of gravel crunchin’ in a driveway. Now I don’t care if you was dead asleep, laid out like a coon in August—you heard that sound, your eyes popped open like biscuits in a hot oven. You didn’t need a doorbell. You didn’t need a phone. That gravel told you everything you needed to know and half of what you
Mark Morgan
Apr 274 min read
The Alarm Clock, the Rooster, and Other Things That Used to Work Just Fine
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I noticed something the other morning while I was wrestling with my alarm clock.Now when I say wrestling, I mean that little electronic contraption went off sounding like a smoke detector married a police siren and had a nervous breakdown right beside my pillow.I slapped at it half awake like a man swatting yellow jackets.Meanwhile, outside my window, the old rooster down the road crowed once… calm as a preacher at a potluck… and went ri
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
The Alarm Clock, the Rooster, and Other Things That Used to Work Just Fine
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I noticed something the other morning while I was wrestling with my alarm clock.Now when I say wrestling, I mean that little electronic contraption went off sounding like a smoke detector married a police siren and had a nervous breakdown right beside my pillow.I slapped at it half awake like a man swatting yellow jackets.Meanwhile, outside my window, the old rooster down the road crowed once… calm as a preacher at a potluck… and went ri
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
Spring Break and Perfumed Dogs
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I been thinking about spring break lately and how different it looks now compared to when we was kids, and somehow that train of thought ran straight into dogs, which tells you how my mind works these days. Spring break now involves airplanes, beaches, and pictures of people standing in water they paid a lot of money to stand in. Spring break when we was kids meant you were home long enough for every adult within a ten-mile radius to rem
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
Spring Break and Perfumed Dogs
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I been thinking about spring break lately and how different it looks now compared to when we was kids, and somehow that train of thought ran straight into dogs, which tells you how my mind works these days. Spring break now involves airplanes, beaches, and pictures of people standing in water they paid a lot of money to stand in. Spring break when we was kids meant you were home long enough for every adult within a ten-mile radius to rem
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
Back When Water Came From a Hose and Stories Came From Grandpa
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I got to thinkin’ the other day about how tough our generation must’ve been, and we didn’t even know it at the time. We drank water out of a garden hose that had been layin’ in the yard since Easter, knew thirty phone numbers by heart, and sat around fires listenin’ to stories that got bigger every year whether they needed to or not. And somehow, we survived all of it. Kids today drink bottled water with labels that sound like a science
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
Back When Water Came From a Hose and Stories Came From Grandpa
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I got to thinkin’ the other day about how tough our generation must’ve been, and we didn’t even know it at the time. We drank water out of a garden hose that had been layin’ in the yard since Easter, knew thirty phone numbers by heart, and sat around fires listenin’ to stories that got bigger every year whether they needed to or not. And somehow, we survived all of it. Kids today drink bottled water with labels that sound like a science
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
The Day We Started Smoking Batteries and Spitting for Family
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I don’t know the exact day things changed, but I can tell you the moment I realized we were livin’ in a whole new kind of world. I was standin’ on Main Street, mindin’ my own business, when I saw a man take a deep breath… off a battery. Now he looked like a good, decent fella—shirt tucked in, boots on, probably had somewhere important to be—but there he was, puffin’ on that thing like it was the most natural thing in the world. I leaned
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
The Day We Started Smoking Batteries and Spitting for Family
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I don’t know the exact day things changed, but I can tell you the moment I realized we were livin’ in a whole new kind of world. I was standin’ on Main Street, mindin’ my own business, when I saw a man take a deep breath… off a battery. Now he looked like a good, decent fella—shirt tucked in, boots on, probably had somewhere important to be—but there he was, puffin’ on that thing like it was the most natural thing in the world. I leaned
Mark Morgan
Apr 273 min read
The Glug-Glug, The Knock, and The Smoke
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I was settin’ in the kitchen the other mornin’, listenin’ to that old coffee pot do its thing—glug… glug… glug…—like it was tellin’ secrets it wasn’t supposed to know. Now if you ain’t ever heard a real percolator talk, you’ve missed out on one of life’s finest conversations. That sound right there could wake the dead or at least a man who stayed up too late watchin’ reruns and regrettin’ decisions. It ain’t like these new coffee makers
Mark Morgan
Apr 243 min read
The Glug-Glug, The Knock, and The Smoke
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I was settin’ in the kitchen the other mornin’, listenin’ to that old coffee pot do its thing—glug… glug… glug…—like it was tellin’ secrets it wasn’t supposed to know. Now if you ain’t ever heard a real percolator talk, you’ve missed out on one of life’s finest conversations. That sound right there could wake the dead or at least a man who stayed up too late watchin’ reruns and regrettin’ decisions. It ain’t like these new coffee makers
Mark Morgan
Apr 243 min read
FIXIN’ TO: THE BUSIEST THING I DID ALL DAY
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I woke up the other morning with a full head of ambition and absolutely no intention of usin’ it. I was fixin’ to clean out the truck. Fixin’ to run by the courthouse. Fixin’ to swing past Main Street like I had important business instead of just curiosity. By noon, I hadn’t done a thing except wear a path from the coffee pot to the porch, but I was wore out just the same. That’s when it hit me— fixin’ to might be the most powerful phra
Mark Morgan
Mar 72 min read
FIXIN’ TO: THE BUSIEST THING I DID ALL DAY
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I woke up the other morning with a full head of ambition and absolutely no intention of usin’ it. I was fixin’ to clean out the truck. Fixin’ to run by the courthouse. Fixin’ to swing past Main Street like I had important business instead of just curiosity. By noon, I hadn’t done a thing except wear a path from the coffee pot to the porch, but I was wore out just the same. That’s when it hit me— fixin’ to might be the most powerful phra
Mark Morgan
Mar 72 min read
Things You Can’t Put Your Hands On (And Why They Don’t Trust You Back)
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I been thinkin’ lately about how many important things in life we’ve decided no longer need to be touched. Not held.Not weighed in your hand.Not set down on the tailgate so you can look at it sideways and decide if it’s worth keepin’. They tell me my life’s work is now “in the cloud.” Now I’ve lived in Scott County long enough to know a cloud when I see one. I’ve watched ‘em pile up over Lake Hinkle, turn the water the color of weak coff
Mark Morgan
Feb 213 min read
Things You Can’t Put Your Hands On (And Why They Don’t Trust You Back)
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I been thinkin’ lately about how many important things in life we’ve decided no longer need to be touched. Not held.Not weighed in your hand.Not set down on the tailgate so you can look at it sideways and decide if it’s worth keepin’. They tell me my life’s work is now “in the cloud.” Now I’ve lived in Scott County long enough to know a cloud when I see one. I’ve watched ‘em pile up over Lake Hinkle, turn the water the color of weak coff
Mark Morgan
Feb 213 min read
It Ain’t About the Flowers
by Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com Valentine’s Day has a way of makin’ folks nervous. It shows up every year dressed in red and pink, expectin’ everybody to prove somethin’, whether they were plannin’ to or not. A fellow can get to thinkin’ it’s all about the flowers. Or the candy. Or the card with just the right words picked off a rack that’s been sayin’ the same thing since about 1973. But I reckon it ain’t. Truth is, most of us already know the flowers won’t last. The
Mark Morgan
Feb 132 min read
It Ain’t About the Flowers
by Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com Valentine’s Day has a way of makin’ folks nervous. It shows up every year dressed in red and pink, expectin’ everybody to prove somethin’, whether they were plannin’ to or not. A fellow can get to thinkin’ it’s all about the flowers. Or the candy. Or the card with just the right words picked off a rack that’s been sayin’ the same thing since about 1973. But I reckon it ain’t. Truth is, most of us already know the flowers won’t last. The
Mark Morgan
Feb 132 min read
LOL Ain’t Got No Handshake
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I was sittin’ on Main Street the other afternoon, takin’ my time the way a person ought to when they ain’t got anywhere important to be, watchin’ folks scurry by like somebody had hollered “free pie” down by the post office. That’s when my phone buzzed. Didn’t ring. Didn’t chirp. Just buzzed, low and nervous, like a June bug trapped in a coffee can. It was a text. Three letters. LOL. I stared at it a spell, tryin’ to recall the last time
Mark Morgan
Feb 93 min read
LOL Ain’t Got No Handshake
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I was sittin’ on Main Street the other afternoon, takin’ my time the way a person ought to when they ain’t got anywhere important to be, watchin’ folks scurry by like somebody had hollered “free pie” down by the post office. That’s when my phone buzzed. Didn’t ring. Didn’t chirp. Just buzzed, low and nervous, like a June bug trapped in a coffee can. It was a text. Three letters. LOL. I stared at it a spell, tryin’ to recall the last time
Mark Morgan
Feb 93 min read
Friends, Followers, and the One Who Shows Up Anyway
By Mark Morgan www.markmorganbooks.com I reckon we’re livin’ in the only time in history where a man can have five hundred friends and still have to scoot his own couch. You hear folks brag about it, too.“Got five hundred friends,” they’ll say, like they’ve just won the county fair blue ribbon for socializin’. Now I ain’t sayin’ that’s not somethin’. Five hundred’s a heap of folks. That’s about how many people you’ll see driftin’ through Main Street if there’s a sale goin’ on
Mark Morgan
Jan 302 min read
New Book & Website Launch Post
🎉 BIG NEWS! 🎉
My brand-new children’s book, The Web We Weave, is officially released today — AND I have a brand-new website where you can check it out!
🕸️ The Web We Weave is a delightful, rhyming story about two mischievous little spiders, teamwork, and learning the importance of telling the truth. Bright illustrations, fuzzy fun characters, and a moral that will stick with kids (and grownups) long after the last page.
✨ And now you can find all my books, free coloring books, and even fun kids’ recipes at
👉 www.MarkMorganBooks.com 👈
📚 Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or just love heartfelt children’s stories, you’ll find something special on the site.
✅ Free downloads
✅ Meet the Author
✅ New books coming soon!
✅ Perfect for classrooms, bedtime, and gifts!
Please take a peek, share with friends, and help spread the word. Thank you for supporting independent authors like me! 💛
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