Turnips Are Rolling

Do You Hear That? Here’s all the warning I’m giving. Today, is about the Supreme Court of the United States and some of their recent decisions. If you don’t want to go there, fine. No hard feelings. Back to normal simple-minded foolishness soon. I just have to express my dislike this week. Are you hearing …

Read Something Different

Out of My Comfort Zone       It is Wednesday afternoon. A new post should go up on our blog in about 18 hours. Weather here in Tidewater Virginia has been hot and humid. I should be cleaning windows or raking the yard. Instead, I’m banging on this laptop with occasional breaks for dog-walking, drinking water, or …

Beans Up My Nose

Putting Beans Up My Nose    We’ve all heard some variation of a story about an adult telling a small child to not put beans up their nose. And, of course, the child hears the pertinent bits: beans, put up, nose. Chaos ensues. In the following, names are changed but locations are correct. We used real …

Ink-stained and Happy

Not As Ink-Stained     You’ve read the term ink-stained-wretch, which I first saw in a column by Paul Greenberg, who was the editor of The Arkansas Democrat newspaper. My understanding is that it originally referred to print journalists, news writers and reporters; however, I’ve repurposed it to suit me as any of us who are banging …

Don’t Read This Rant

Don’t read this post, it’s a rant. Seriously, find another way to waste these few minutes: boil an egg, clean the lint from your navel, trim your toenails, trim someone else’s toenails, or just sit quietly and think of hummingbirds. If you and I agree, you’ll be reading my take on things you already know. …