Thomas Woof Festival and...
Bunches of years ago, my friend Barbara Webster came up with the idea of a Thomas Wolfe Festival (Barbara, please correct me if I’m misremembering - it’s...
The Kim and I
I usually type ButtonDowns after a snort or two, late at night. I’m only halfway through my first cup of coffee, and this bit was begging to be shared. This...
Red Ribbons
I love watching movies, and have probably about 200 DVDs. Tonight, I decided to watch one I haven’t seen for a while, so picked Philadelphia, for which Tom...
For Yancey residents...
Mark Friday, October 17 on your calendars for another great RuthFest - a cornbread-making contest. There will be cash prizes for the winners, and raffle...
There Comes a Time (Part Two)
If I weren’t so curious about the contents of the old letters I’ve been sorting, the sorting could go a whole lot faster. As it stands, I finished only one...
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
I’ve been going through the 400-ish books on my various bookshelves, donating many in good shape to friends who have bought the bookstore uptown. My friend...
Wisconsin, Wisconsin, rhubarb, rhubarb, and...
During high school, our drama director - Jon Aceto, a handsome man just 10 years old than we sophomores (he was also my homeroom teacher), told us that...
Why would a mermaid have a gun?
I’ll get to that in a bit. Remember in the last ButtonDown I wrote about all the letters I’ve received and hung on to? Well, I briefly thought then about...
There comes a time...
…when you look around and think, “I have too much stuff.” And if, like me, you are sentimental and/or think your stuff represents you, you struggle with...
April 6, continued...
I meant to mention that Amanda Martin was not just on the committee, but the person we could count on to deliver the exactly right message when confronted...
April 6, 2010 - fifteen years ago today...
…Burnsville voters came out and voted for or against alcohol sales. The “for” won by a comfortable margin. We were the ones who understood that - with beer...
Warning, Will Robinson! This is long!
It’s time to clear off my fabric-and-ribbon padded bulletin board above my computer desk. I can’t remember the last time I did it, but judging by the look of...
I'm fairly certain I seized the wrong day.
That is what is printed on the front of a journal sent to me by my friend Susan C. I haven’t made any entries in it yet. My handwriting is so atrocious, even...
Good Company
I thought I’d read somewhere that Robin Williams had been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, so of course I DuckDuckGo’d it. He did, but it wasn’t diagnosed...
Hot Burnsville News!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-plott-hound-books-start-a-new-chapter Plott Hound Books in uptown Burnsville will shortly be run by a new management team....
Oops - replies
Apparently you CAN reply to a ButtonDown and it goes to my fastmail. Last week, a friend with gmail said he replied to a couple, but I didn’t get them. Just...
Before I forget...
Hi, all. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks here. Seems like spring has sprung prematurely…the weather is unseasonably warm, and things that shouldn’t...
Turns out.....
…I don’t get your emails if you respond to one of these ButtonDowns. I wish I could have Tinyletter back. =sigh= So, please email lucydoll@fastmail.com if...
"Lists must be made."
By uttering that sentence aloud, I woke myself up from a deep sleep this morning. I’d just had a two-part dream: first, sitting alone in a large old...
Moving right along to the plot...
(And a request - see below…) As I gird my loins for the near-ish new future, I ignored today the list I’d started with Important Things To Do, and went...