Author Archives: chuckbjames

For no good reason when I was about 15 I, along with about 5 buddies, decided we liked throwing mudballs at cars. One time when we really connected, out of the blue there were 3 police cars that turned their lights on simultaneously. They were waiting. We had our backs to a school building hidingContinue reading “For no good reason…”

There’s an old game people play to get to know each other. It’s called “two truths and a lie”. You tell the people in the group three things (two truths and a lie about yourself) and then they decide which is the lie. For example: I ride a motorcycle, I played minor league baseball, IContinue reading “Two truths and a lie…”

Was God there when his son died? I know Jesus said “my God my God why have you forsaken me?”. I get it. He took on the sins of the world and at that moment there was a split in the trinity. I get it. But was He….there? When Christ was tortured, when Christ wasContinue reading “Was He there…”

Asking questions is a lost art. Too much “look at me” going on over the past 7 years since selfies and social media really took off. Asking questions of others is healing to both souls. “look at me” hurts souls. It’s why I believe today’s teenagers struggle so much with anxiety and stress. Too muchContinue reading “The lost art…”

I have a lot of scars. I have one on my thigh from when I was about 13 and a buddy and I were goofing around in the alley behind my house. He had a knife and we were pretend fighting. Until we got tangled up and I landed on his knife. Took a bigContinue reading “Scars…”

A long time ago I saw a movie called The Perfect Storm. It came out in 2000 and was based on the true story of the fishing boat Andrea Gail. Desperate to improve their recent fishing result the captain and crew take an ill-advised trip out much further than what would be normal. While theirContinue reading “The Perfect Storm…”

One time watching an episode of Frasier, Niles and Frasier took a basic auto mechanics class. At one point in the class they were learning to replace spark plugs. The shop teacher instructed everyone to “twist and pull”. Niles and Frasier tried and tried and simply could not get the spark plug out. They endedContinue reading “Twist THEN pull…”

When the police caught me they all inevitably said something to the effect of, “Have to say we are pretty surprised and disappointed given that you’re Sonny’s son”. Disappointed. Sonny is what everyone called my dad. His real name was Charles Brint James. And while hard to believe, Brint was the name given to meContinue reading “Sonny’s Son…”

When I was about 15 years old I was not a great kid. Some called it mischief. Some called it three felonies. Depends on who you ask. 🙂 After getting caught me and my friend Steve had already agreed that if we got sent away to the detention center for boys, we were running away.Continue reading “Flying blind…”

I was in a meeting recently where someone said, “It’s not about percentages, it’s about dollars”. I couldn’t disagree more but I guess it depends on what you value. When I was leaving the center in Tuscon it had been a long couple of days. What I had hoped for wasn’t materializing and in factContinue reading “Percentages or Dollars…”