The thing about living in a small town is it’s impossible to escape the past. Dating someone you’ve known all your life is fraught for you know the break up will be public, and you’ll run into that person time and again. They know it, too, so there has to be some sort of understanding … Read more
Like Stephen King, I don’t buy into the idea of “Writer’s Block”. There are times I need a break from writing, but it doesn’t amount to “can’t write” but rather “don’t want to write”. The production exists if will to write does. That’s anything in life, really. I woke up this morning with three things … Read more
A guy I worked with for a few years seemed damaged maybe, as if there was something about him, you know, if you’re around a man with a slight limp you might one day hear the story of the horse that kicked him as a child. Buddy was one of those guys who didn’t come … Read more
Recently, I’ve been listening to books online while I work out. It’s a bit over thirty minutes to get to the Y and thirty minutes back, and I usually work out for about an hour, so that’s two hours, three or four times a week, I spend with a book. What, you may ask, are … Read more
To say we rarely get cold weather in south Georgia is like someone in Minnesota saying they don’t have kudzu. The Weed that Devoured the South never killed anyone, as far as I know, but the cold that hit about a third of the country has left a death count behind that is still being … Read more
If you want to know what it felt like to be an abolitionist in the south around 1850, try being anti-Christmas here in 2022. Your kneejerk reaction might be to be appalled I would compare Christmas to slavery, but the electronic gadgets you buy for your kids are made in factories in China where people … Read more
If you’ve never had a long term relationship with a gym, you don’t know the sense of dread that’s coming over us gym rats right now. For most of the year, new people, one or two perhaps, will enter the Temple of Sweat, and perhaps they will stick around, perhaps not, but all in all, … Read more
When “Star Wars” came out in 1977, it was validation of my love for science fiction. Here was, for the first time ever, an epic movie that was everything I dreamed a movie could be. “The Empire Strikes Back” wasn’t bad at all, but “Return of the Jedi” just didn’t do it for me at … Read more
As thunderstorms rolled into the area, tornadoes were predicted, the weather turned for the worse. In at least five cities and towns across Georgia, something else came in on the storm. I will preface all of this by first saying this: No one was injured or hurt. With Uvalde fresh in everyone’s minds, parents rushed … Read more
No doubt, some of you are on the road home, or perhaps still on the road going somewhere, and may whatever particular deity you believe in have mercy on your spirit, soul, bank account, or whatever you consider most holy. For my part, even early in the week, days before Black Friday, I can see … Read more