It is January 25, 2018. It’s late. It is often late. My birthday, not that I particularly am into my birthdays, has come and gone. My heart-versary — two years now, and I’m feeling good — has passed, too, on that same day. I probably ought to come up with a better verb than that.… Read More Another time, perhaps
Today, I cleaned out the sinks in our bathroom. Both of them were starting to empty a little slowly, and being the convenient environmentalist I am, I didn’t really want to throw a gallon of whatever toxic sticky stuff Drano has in it down the tube and into the Chattahoochee. Plus, Drano is damn expensive.… Read More You DIY, dammit
Mary Jo, my wonderful wife of (mumblemumble) years, has always been a dog person. Obviously, if she were a cat person, she wouldn’t be getting talked up here. If she were a cat person, we’d have never made it to mumblemumble years. Her first dog, if I’m not mistaken, was Inky (a picture of him,… Read More The patron saint of canines
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
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
And now, for a screed … When I screwed up as a kid, which was every once in a while, my Dad would stop everything, give me a stare that my buddy Steve and I used to call the “OTG look” (Over the Glasses) and tell me, “You know better than that.” I thought of that last week… Read More What Dad used to say
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