Below about 15 degrees, things are different. I’m likely to wear long pants in the house. We can have a fire continuously without running everyone out of the living room. The piston slap in the Technical Writing Express is noticeably more pronounced. Low teens and single digits also reliably reinforce something for me every time: … Read more
Fort McClellan, an Army installation adjacent to my old stomping ground of Anniston, Alabama, closed in 1999. Several facilities and businesses that were not strictly military took longer than that to cease operations. Best I can put together anecdotally, this Burger King closed about 2004. I first saw it when I was down for my … Read more
I have a copy of Coach Bryant’s 1974 autobiography that belonged to my grandfather. It doesn’t have an index, and it’s been probably ten years since I read it. But I remembered something in it I wanted to talk about, so I was delighted to find it in just a few minutes, on page 214. … Read more