A year ago, two of Granny’s girlfriends joined her for a little birthday brunch.
How things can change in 365 days. One friend is now on lock down in assisted living. The other has passed away. But the African Violet I gave Granny is thriving and now three times the size it was.
Today, [...]
I sleep next to the window.
I don’t know whether its because I can look up into the sky at night or that I look up into the sky at night because I sleep next to the window.
Either way, I sleep next to the window. And I always have.
I think that when I was a very [...]
Today is March Thirty One. The end of one of those months that has one more day than the some of the others. It’s one day out of the three hundred and sixty-five in the year. It’s one day out of the thirty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-two days in my Granny’s [...]
Have you ever heard of the idea of the secret lives of cats and dogs? You know. All the things that people’s pets do while they are away at work, but the owners have no idea about. Sometimes I wonder what Granny’s secret life is. I know basically what she does while [...]
TO: United Steal Workers, Local 101
RE: Mugging of 101-year old woman
Dear USW,
I see from the news that your organization and many of your affiliate organizations (Society of Car Jackers, Drug Pushers of America) are working hard to maintain our country’s status as the leading producer of theft and violent crime. Hardly a day goes [...]
This week’s Monday mailbox question:
Dear Tony.
What countries did your ancestors come from?
I have to admit that I do not know a great deal about my heritage other than my immediate family. I can’t pinpoint towns and stuff. And I can’t give you what fraction of this or what ratio of that. But [...]
My favorite times of the year in East Tennessee are the middle of spring and the late summer. That’s when the skys are cloudless and awfully blue and the temperatures hover in the 70’s. It was one of those kinds of days…sunny, no humidity, and it smelled like the first day of school.
The job site [...]
Just a thirty-three year-old Tennessee mountain man, taking it one day at a time.
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