And God Bless Tiny Tim, Too

Ah! The Southern Illusion comes through again. This morning’s paper carried an article about the Catholic Bishop from Belleville coming down to Cobden for the Church’s Spring Blessing of the Farm. Apparently the red and white robed Bishop sprinkled holy water and blessed everything in site including soil, animals, two flatbed wagons and assorted farm [...]

Shameless Plug

Okay, I know.
I just can’t help it.
Difficult to write with my tongue not firmly planted in my cheek, but I have to let you know that our friend Luciar releases her newest CD; Skin at a CD release (what else?) party on may 11th, 7:30 PM at Pianos, 158 Ludlow Street, New York, NY. [...]

A Little Additional on the Medical Profession

I was telling a friend about this “weblog” (I refuse to call it a “blog” as that must be something you'd do after partaking of too much fermented, distilled sap from the agave plant.) When I gave him the URL, he made some semi-unfunny remark about wine presses, printing presses but never having heard [...]

Tracto s. Quisquis, nos tribuo vos quispiam peior.

Nan came down with a cold/flu/sinus infection/bronchitis type thingy on Thursday back around February 16th or so. Being a good husband and a “sweet man” (see last post) I naturally offered to share her misery and developed the same symptoms by Saturday.
Not being much of a fan of medical “professionals,” rating them right above attorneys [...]

One Sweet Guy!

Returning home from St. Louis the other day, my wife was telling me about the man who handles the mail in her office and distributes it around to the schools in the county. She said that he made a pot of coffee early each morning and brought her a cup when he brought her the [...]