Close to Home by John McPherson for March 23, 2025

The names were changed to protect the innocent.

“I want to assure you that any resemblance to anyone here is purely intentional.”

HEY! WE ALL DO STUFF WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE!

The story of her personal relationship with Jesus, her tennis instructor.

“Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.”

Leo Rosten

Awww, just like school.

What? There is never any gossip circles in churches!

I would believe him if it weren’t for his ‘Tell All’ book in the autobiography section of the library.

One of my favorite lines for people of that type: “The things you’ve heard about me, are probably as true as the things I’ve heard about you”. That usually shuts them down, very quickly.

Or so he says….

Hiya Bleeb! Wow! Almost front row seat. Probably safer there! No. I didn’t tell him about that time in Vegas . . . :)

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the story has so much in common with someone here.

By the look on her face, she seems to think it is about her.

Well, now I want to hear the story. Sounds really good.

Then he didn’t read the movie script from Hitchcock’s version of ‘The Wrong Man’, the movie which paired up Werner Klemperer and Harold J. Stone in a the same payroll lines.

HIPAA violation.

Is this supposed to be at church? Kind of looks like my chapel. :D

Well of course it’s about the wife

“I felt all flushed with fever, Embarrassed by the crowd

I felt he found my letters And read each one out loud

I prayed that he would finish But he just kept right on"

- Killing me softly (Roberta Flack)

Yeah … even Bleeb doesn’t believe that!