Ashley had told me that for Father’s Day she was giving me a free day to get out of dodge. We had a pretty big squabble the last few days over our same old junk, and I was actually thinking Father’s Day, for me, was going to go more like Asshole Day. You know, because [...] Continue Reading »
Father’s Day reconciliation and the big fish
4the affinity argument of mustaches and fishing
0There’s a grilled cheese and a half on the griddle, cold now, but still crunchy with butter I’m sure of it. Also, we made french toast this morning, the same Ezekiel bread, the same butter. Then Ashley took a walk for contemplative solitude while Addair and I cleaned house. That is, he watched Veggie Tales and I [...] Continue Reading »
mustache dad in the works
4Ashley has absolutely torn my manuscript up. I knew it was going to need that, although I’m proud of much of it, run-on sentences and all. I whine often of the difficulties with writing on the side. It leads to redundancies, inconsistency of voice, and overall lack of direction. Sounds like a good pitch [...] Continue Reading »
volatile mama
6I’ve been feeling absolutely awful. There’s the routine nausea and tiredness but the worst of it is soul anguish. It’s impossible to gauge how much of this is contributed to hormones. Likely it’s mostly that, but in the fog of it this is no consolation. I’m not so sure my hormones have leveled out since Addair Kentucky, making normal irrelevant [...] Continue Reading »
mother’s day weekend
8The following is a letter from my mom, each of my siblings got one. This Mother’s Day weekend I’m feeling honored to get to celebrate alongside people like her: Mother’s Day is coming up, and I thought I should tell you what I want. This way there’s no guilty panic or last minute purchasing of [...] Continue Reading »
a list of sentences, because i feel like i have to hurry
0i really don’t have to hurry, but i can’t shake the feeling so… nausea again worked on the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Art on Tap painting today about to cut the day short so that I can pack and head to Bristol and then Tazewell for an evening of storytelling but before we go I [...] Continue Reading »
the exercise of doing what you want
0I was grateful for the rain because it made for a no question writing day, and honestly it is often a great struggle to get up these days and put on the painters pants and find something that ought to be whiter. Not when the memoir is in the home stretch of a second [...] Continue Reading »
siblings
10In so many words I’ve said it already, but we were still contacting family members on the mountain–now here it goes: we’re having another young’n! Ashley is about six weeks, which by my calculation (not very sophisticated) makes a due date of December 18. Addair will be 2 on December 21. So, what were we [...] Continue Reading »
trailer lights, big plans, big news
5For the I don’t know how many-eth time, I was going to finish rewiring the trailer today. I think I have a sound strategy now, and I bought a continuity tester for the 12v trailer wiring. All the wire is run. But I still need somebody to hit the breaks, and somebody to stand behind [...] Continue Reading »
mustache dad
5Last Tuesday I finished a draft of the memoir which now has been given the working-title “Mustache Dad.” I printed it off and it’s sitting in a stack beside me. Though it’s full of issues and thin parts and likely pages upon pages that will be cut, there is quite a feeling of accomplishment to [...] Continue Reading »