
Wow. There is a fantastic blues program on the radio right now (npr). called The Blues. I could listen to this all day and night, really. It’s being hosted by Keb Mo. I just looked it up here, http://www.pbs.org/theblues/songsartists/songsradio.html. and found it’s a 13 part series – part 10 (Chicago) playing tonight. I like the [...]

I love red shoes. I always have. When I was in 6th grade, my father told me I looked like I was wearing a pair of skis when I wore my new red flats on Easter. Not exactly encouragement, and I do remember feeling very hurt. But it didn’t quench my desire for red shoes. [...]
An abandoned house sits down the street from where I live. The yard is kept meticulously neat: the lawn mowed, the leaves raked, blown down braches and debris removed. It is surrounded by a barbed wire fence and presides over a majestic pasture of rolling hills and grazing cows. The house intrigues me. Pictures of [...]

It’s been a good few years since I’ve seen a bear. Suddenly, I’ve seen one twice. And, Penny chased one away once that we know of and possibly more. And Bob saw one when he was up working on the roof this afternoon. Then, today in town, the local paper which I don’t subscribe to [...]

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, [...]