Ah....
I just looked back at two or three of these ButtonDowns, and if I’m not mistaken, I managed to not complain about the awful hot weather we endured the past...
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...
…that my best friend, my first dog, Baguette, was killed by a car - on the street here, right in front of me. I’d gotten Baguette when Ex and I still lived...
Where've You Been?
Today, a friend came over and put together the first of two media cabinets that will flank my front door. I only needed one, but the one that arrived last...
The Tinyletter I Was Too Wasted to Write Last Night
I played Parking Po-lice again yesterday afternoon for the NuWray Hotel, so Craft Fair attendees wouldn’t take up the guests’ parking spots. I was under a...
Drugs and other fun stuff
When I moved away from home after high school in order to take a job in the Big City (Milwaukee), I was 17. My great-aunt Gertie Haig had worked at the...
Love, Dick - and Driving Miss Lucy
I still have a couple of boxes of old letters I should just dump, but I love going through them. For most of them, I know or remember the writer. A couple...
Wazzup-ish . . .
Hi, y’all! Since my brain now remembers new thoughts for only a few minutes, or lets me recall an old thought in a word or two for later, I started a new...
Cool thoughts for a hot summer day
Hi, all you cool people! A few months ago, I elected to spend another 45 minutes with my sisters visiting from Wisconsin, taking them to the Asheville...
A Girl from Wisconsin
Someone introduced me to this video today. I’m definitely not “that” girl, and the closest I ever got to cows was when Salentine’s cows from their farm a...
Me, dogs, fireworks
Some bozos always start shooting off fireworks in Burnsville a few days before the Fourth of July. It’s illegal, but that doesn’t stop them. Fireworks aren’t...
Summertime...and the living is...weird
[My apologies to George Gershwin.] The weather got hot. The weather cooled off. The weather got hot again. Hour to hour, it seems sometimes. I’ve not left...
PS. on International Talk Like A Pirate Day
I should have included this link. This year will be its 25th anniversary! International Talk Like a Pirate Day - Wikipedia
International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Every September 19th is “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. Today, a friend reminded me it’s coming up, and - since September 19th happens to be a Friday...
O Found, and rejoicing has commenced!
I found the damn phone about 15 minutes ago. Because of dog poop. You heard me right. Apparently, at about this time last night, when it had finally cooled...
O Lost...and by me grieved...
I have lost my phone. I last used it last night, apparently having just texted a phone number that I don’t recognize. Jim, my neighbor Mary, and I have...
Covid and Helene and dot dot dot...
Covid happened here five years ago. I’m not sure I’ve ever gotten over the repercussions, although my personal bout with the virus was - thankfully - short-...
"You sure have an interesting life...
…but I’m glad it’s not mine.” Those words were spoken to me by my Atlanta-ish neighbor Leeann (some of you have met here at LitFest), around 1980 (?) when I...
Yancey County Commission vs. Yancey County Library
In case you hadn’t heard, free speech is under attack here in Yancey County. Two years ago, someone who wasn’t even registered to vote here (sent by Moms for...
A Menace to Society
Yup, that’s me. I guess having been a Girl Scout for 12 years but only earning 1 patch foresaw my current status. The patch (Social) had a teapot on it. I...
Woofing It
Well, the 2nd Thomas Woof Festival was a big hit. Ron Powell set up a sound system that ran itself, using fabulous music he had on his cellphone. We didn’t...