Over the past couple of days, I have been assembling our Thanksgiving meal. The thought occurred to me there were few dishes I was making that were not influenced by Thanksgivings past. From the actual recipes to the physical dishes that contained food or presented the stars of the meal. […]
Family
The humor I find in life from my favorite peeps
Audio Books for the Busy
A Heartbreak Story of Love, Loss, and Life This book was rough, I am not going to lie. I generally have a book to listen to while at work to keep noise out and my mind focused. I googled best non-fiction books of 2022 and “In Love” by Amy Bloom […]
Is it Covid or Am I Crazy
The Background As much as everyone wants covid to go away, it just isn’t. Every month or two it seems covid puts on a fake mustache, a cowboy hat, changes a couple of proteins and is back in the news wrecking havoc. For the past two years my family has […]
A Summer Escape
No Cars Allowed Last summer we ventured out of quarantine to our summer vacation destination. I enjoy visiting out of the way places, and if there is a history component, all the better. We wanted to go to a beach, just not a crowded beach. After searching the popular islands […]
The Great Outdoors
Who doesn’t love vacation? I think planning a vacation may be my favorite thing. Generally, I spend months at a time fussing over places to stay, attractions, and must visit restaurants. Color coded, laminated spreadsheets would be distributed before departure to all family members. All of this was completed for […]
Ode to the Stubborn Old Goats
We have, if we are lucky, all encountered, engaged, and for lack of a better description, “dealt” with a stubborn old goat. These are the older authority figures in our lives. And more often than not, the heroes. My dad was the first SOG (Stubborn Old Goat) I encountered. Obviously, […]
Almost Everything but the Kitchen Sink
I have started a half dozen post between July and yesterday. There was so much going on. Summer vacation, school starting, marching season, work stress, and all of those are individual post. However, that requires time, adequate rest, coherent thought, pictures, and any other excuse I can think of. Somehow […]
New England Road Trip Chronicles: Part Two
Fourteen days on the road with five people is quite a bit of time. After leaving Niagara we travelled through Vermont and New Hampshire to arrive in Maine for a bit of a rest. The house we rented in Maine was absolutely perfect. I would like to say it […]
New England Road Trip Chronicles: Part One
Road trips are Americana at its finest. Nostalgia for those of us born in the 70’s is loading up the family vehicle and hitting the open road. Now granted, most of the time my family “vacation” included going to see my grandmother or simply moving. However, my father was a […]
Happy Birthday Momma
In June 1940, the United States was still over a year away from officially entering the second World War. The Deep South was still reeling from the Great Depression. Poverty was nothing new to Jimmy and Earlene Tucker. Both grew up in hard working families depending on their hard […]
