Lea and I built our house, in a subdivision that used to be a cotton field, seven years ago. It’s not quite shonuff “out in the country,” but it’s definitely not two blocks off a thoroughfare like Lea’s house, where we lived for three years, was. We didn’t move far—about 15 miles the way the … Read more
I can’t say I’ve never been a slob, because small children are universally and thoroughly disgusting, and I used to be a small child. But I’ve been fastidiously neat since about 1975. I was never the kid whose parents rode his ass all the time about keeping his room clean. I always knew where my … Read more
Charles and I have been enjoyably checking each other’s word choice for 20 years now. Lea and I have been doing it for 13. I can’t tell you exactly how the minus five (-5) game started. Charles, Russ, and I started playing in high school, and I think it kept traction with us because it … Read more