Here we are, folks. This is most of why summer is my third-favorite season. Here is the current five-day forecast for my part of the world (thanks, Weather Underground): Hey, hey! How about an average high temperature of 96.4° for the next five days! How would that be? As I write, it is 94.3° outside, … Read more
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