If I was a drinking man, this might have been me in 2016: Sitting on this barstool, talking like a damn fool Got the twelve o’clock news blues And I’ve given up hope for the afternoon soaps And a bottle of cold brew Is it any wonder I’m not crazy? Is it any wonder I’m saneRead more
dogged [dawgd, dogd] adjective, Southern U.S. 1.doggoned; damned; confounded: Well, I’ll be dogged! – dictionary.com I stood at the end of my driveway and assessed the situation. Cicadas were already creating their summertime background noise. The sun was just about to peek over the tree line. Some patchy fog looked like it would help mute theRead more
Dear Twenty-two-year-old Self, Congratulations to you/me. You’ve graduated college and are starting your first job in lovely (cough, cough) Dayton, OH. You’ve already made one mistake – leaving God’s country, Athens, GA, but I cannot help you with that one now. Congratulations are also in order because I/you have made it to the twenty-five yearRead more
If you’ll recall, there was a little problem hanging over the late 1990’s. It was called Y2K. Someone realized that most computer hardware and software at the time used two-digit date codes and when these dates changed from 99 to 00 at midnight between December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000, some very bad thingsRead more
Now that I’m a parent of a sixteen year-old, I shake my head when I think about young Stacia. At 7am, on the first day of school, August 1984, Stacia was the first passenger to board bus 550 for the trip to Northwood Middle School. She was in 6th or 7th grade. That was myRead more