It’s a rant today on everyone’s favorite ranting subject: the internet. Join in if you feel called. Our internet coverage out here in the valley is tin cans strung together. No fiber, no satellite availability, we don’t even have reliable antenna reception when the leaves are on the trees. Yet somehow we have indescribably slow DSL.
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The School of Hard Knocks
I don’t give up easily. Stubborn, hardheaded and tenacious, that’s me. It also takes me a while to get the message when I make bad choices and I’ve made a lot. If this sounds like you, read on. Actually, read on anyway. I graduated high school in Indiana with honors a semester early. Four
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Revenge Isn’t Really Very Sweet
I’ve been thinking about revenge. In the southern branch of our family revenge was best served ice cold, saccharine sweet, locked and loaded. Tradition dictated that if you wronged us, you wronged the entire family and you would pay. If not today, tomorrow. If not this decade than the next or forever until your family
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Learning to Chill
Geez, I’m tired. What about you? Have you ever had a week where everything seems overwhelming? That’s my week. Every time I turn around, I’m rushing off to the next thing. I did this complete overwhelm to myself just as you do it to yourself too. I scheduled lots of events and fun things that
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Sweet Potato Madness
Have you ever had one of those times where you try hard to do things correctly but you’re so stubborn you do it your way regardless? Thug Kitchen (Rodale, 2014) is an irreverent, f-bomb dropping cookbook. It’s not for everyone. And my tale is not about a recipe from their book. I’m sure they’d thank
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Every Gig is DIfferent
I love going out to catch some tunes don’t you? And as a musician, I think live music is the best. There’s magic in being in the same room with the musicians. On a tough night not all the players start in the same key. Or start the same song. If the drummer is sitting
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Actually, He Didn’t Thrill Me
I’m thinking of a long ago Spring. It was the Spring I turned 40 and my two friends and I headed to the Juke Joint Blues Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was a grey and rainy day to travel and my friends started the day doing some friendly carping at each other on to get
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Talking With The Family
What was dinner like when you were growing up? What did you eat? Talk about? My folks weren’t into traveling, they were into saving their money and eating out. And by the time I came along, they were over the whole kid’s food thing. If they wanted to go out to dinner they hauled me
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Grumpy But Keeping a Positive Attitude
Some days it doesn’t do to get out of bed. I’m living those days. First there was the death of my beloved brother-in-law after a brief, devastating illness. Then I got COVID. Then my husband Ken got COVID (both of us totally boosted). After four days of fever my doctor finally decided to prescribe Paxlovid.
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Cosmetic Surgery? Ah, No.
My pal and I were chatting the other day when she turned to me and said, “You know, you could get some Botox for those wrinkles on your forehead. I think you’d really like it.” Huh! True, I didn’t sleep well the night before. When I got up that morning and looked in the mirror,
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Bored? No Way!
Oof getting older. Remember those days when you were a kid and you’d complain to your parents that you were bored? They always replied with exasperation followed by a list of things you could do but didn’t want to do. Or they told you to go outside and not bother them. Have you noticed that
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Swearing at the Gym
I’m no longer “with it.” I’ve become an old fogie. Has this happened to you? Fair warning: there are graphic references to strong profanity in this post. I like listening to lots of different kinds of music. At home it’s blues, jazz, zydeco or classical. When I’m in the gym they stream current music which is
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