We first stuck Luke on a piano bench when he was, I don’t know, maybe 5. We had an old upright piano in our place in Marietta that Mary Jo’s friend Sophie gave her — Sophie was a part grandma, part travel buddy, part tutor who lived across the street from Mary Jo when she… Read More Piano Man
Last Saturday, I was standing in line to buy a Powerball ticket at a local Kroger — I’m stupid that way — squinting down at my phone reading about a protest in Boston. There, just at the edge of my myopia, I saw someone trying to creep into line ahead of me. I, of course,… Read More Carol
I have been blogging off and on (shut up! about the off) for a couple years now. I like it, when I actually get around to it. It scratches an itch. I appreciate it, too. I admire those who do it regularly and do it well. This stuff is not easy, you know. It’s a lot… Read More Working without a net
I’m going to interrupt my regularly scheduled posts — shut up! — to get back into something, hopefully briefly, that I’ve tried to avoid for the past six months. President Trump (hereafter, just Trump) is talking and tweeting, still. He won’t stop. He can’t stop. As it is now and always has been with all… Read More On Charlottesville, history and a man who will never deserve a statue
Back in early May — yeah, it’s been awhile — Mary Jo and I took a quick zip over to Charleston, South Carolina, to check out the city. We’d never been there before, we needed a little getaway, we’d heard great things about it from a bunch of friends and, more than anything, we wanted… Read More The Next Stop Tour: Charleston, SC
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