Here are some reasons I wanted to update the blog as to the status of my memoir: 1. To explain my writing absence here. 2. To try and get the word out of its existence. 3. To receive some attaboys and some youcandoits. 4. To describe what the tale is actually about. This last point [...] Continue Reading »
for the attaboys and youcandoits
4friday wilderness awareness, and the new parenting/work schedule
6Good morning and happy Friday to you. Things are excellent here this morning. I’m thankful for some silly things, cinnamon rolls and good coffee, warmth spilling out of the oven. And to be writing a blog by the fireside. At the first morning light I snuck out of bed, not without noticing mother and [...] Continue Reading »
hunger for the Skeeter-Dog
0I’m having a nice afternoon under my felt Stetson, hiding in a Starbucks just to the right of the entrance in Wytheville, VA. Ashley is with a great bunch of Addair women for dinner theater at the Wolhfahrt Haus. That’s impossible to spell by the way, and I’ve done my usual Wytheville loafing which takes [...] Continue Reading »
lenten journey for perfection and success (the very easy way)
4If you have begun a lenten journey this year, good speed to you. Maybe you gave up white chocolate. Maybe you gave up being mean to your husband. I gave up changing diapers, and began a one hour evening devotion to poetry and arpeggios. A big ha. Let me re-begin, the coffee isn’t yet working. [...] Continue Reading »
finding happiness in work: advice to the younger me
2We’ve began a three month family plan: a checklist for hitting the road in a travel camper come spring, a bunch of paintings and enough CDs to sprinkle around for gas money and electric hookup. No, not really. I’m afraid the plan is going to be a little more boring. Like putting together our taxes, [...] Continue Reading »
introducing Loretta
4On Friday night Addair had fallen asleep on the way home from the grocery and Ashley went inside to start dinner. The little guy was still zonked in the car seat and the radio played pop country at a gentle level as I scrolled through Craigslist on my phone. Always for the same two things: [...] Continue Reading »
New Years Resolutions
5It’s time for thought as to estimable notions like balance, discipline, and alignment; not to mention hope, for a new year is upon us and other than cold rain, the fiscal cliff has come although it hasn’t opened the roof too bad yet. I hear Addair is awake and that means I get diaper duty [...] Continue Reading »
nine. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
2NINE Playing background dinner music is one of the best places to people watch that I know of. It’s better than a bench in the mall, better than a county fair, better even than a cafe table on a busy street. When you’re on the piano you may stare all you want and no one [...] Continue Reading »
eight. the men in black suits.
1EIGHT My warmup for a gig starts many hours before. First I walk a mile to Andy’s and borrow the Neon. I head downtown to Market Square, park in the alley, enter Cafe Four and go down the elevator to a storage room. The keyboard case is in the back, through piles of crates, [...] Continue Reading »
seven. doing simple things
1SEVEN Graning Paint is a family affair under the interstate that shares a stance with Ray’s Market which supplies the population under the bridge with the coldest brown paper sack they could ask for without leaving the comfort of home. At Graning Paint they have ashtrays on the sales counter, always ask “cash or charge?” [...] Continue Reading »