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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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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Move It Over You Road Hog!
I’m ranting today. Have you noticed? More people are driving in the middle of the road. Here the menace is stone hauling semis and gravel trucks. The gravel trucks don’t have license plates. Someone’s political coffer is richer for this nonsense. It’s a real pisser because if they throw a stone and break your windshield,
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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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Who Was This Guy?
We went out to breakfast at our favorite haunt on Monday. It was nice to sit and be served. Our waiter introduced himself as Joseph. He took our drink order, chatting about what good choices we’d made. He asked did we want sugar? Cream? Honey? Extra lemon? . He nodded, smiling in approval with each
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Trash Panda Invasion
We have a problem. Maybe you have this problem too. In the last 8 years, we’ve caught over 72 raccoons, 36 possums, a skunk, a feral cat and our two housecats in a Have-A-Heart trap. . Ken and I name all the captives. We started with random names, went through the Presidents, various famous women,
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Meeting Great, Great, Great Aunt Sally
I met great-great-great Aunt Sally on a hot August day. She was the oldest surviving member of the family. I was 7. I’d never heard of her before. . She was in her late 90’s and was out in the garden sitting on the ground in her sunbonnet picking beans. She looked ancient to me.
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