Goat Stories

Holy Goat!The story began with the wave of His handthat created the moon and the stars,and a rock that was spun ‘round a neighboring sun –in the space between Venus and Mars.He changed it from stone that was dead-to-the-bone,to a world that you wouldn’t believe –and a garden to boot with some low hanging fruitfor a couple named Adam and Eve.But when He was done, when the rain and the sunturned the surface from barren to g...

To set this story in the proper time and place, I have to take you back to my teen years. Back a few years to my first encounter with a goat. I was visiting a friend on the outskirts of the City. Margaret was getting us some nice cold drinks while I sat on the back steps of her house. She lived right next to a farm that had a pen full of goats, and I could see them from the steps. There looked to be at least a dozen of th...