The season is here, or at the very least on the way. I speak of course of the most dreaded and feared season of all… FLU SEASON. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing, but to battle flu and other less renowned viruses, homemade chicken noodle soup is a must. I […]
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 […]
The Bigfoot of Hair Lore
I did not win the hair lottery in my family. My sisters, my mom, nieces, cousins, nephews, aunts, and even uncles all have just incredible amounts of thick, shiny hair. My sisters and niece have long lengths of these massive locks. Just like a horse’s ass…I mean tail, a horse’s […]
If You Didn’t Know…
In case it is not painfully obvious by now, I will point it out… I like to share my pseudo wisdom. My niece graciously accepted a handwritten notebook of advice for her high school graduation. Most of my “advice” comes from an aging woman and is directed toward mostly women, […]
Remember Yourself and Find the Funny
I feel as though I metaphorically and literarily fell off the internet in the last months of the year. Start a blog they said. It will be fun they said. And “they” as usual are selfish buttheads that are simply using you for your side splitting humor and to gain […]
Two Girls, One Birthday
I am not entirely sure how I arrived at this day. How did 16 years of my life pass so quickly? Sixteen years ago on this date, through a bit of emergency pomp and circumstance, two little girls made Tim and I a family. Anna, first at 6:14 p.m., arriving […]
Heritage
Family. Traditions. Roots. Pride. Heritage. These are simple, yet powerful words. Tribes, villages, clans, family… have meant survival since before homo Sapiens eventually beat out homo Erectus for survival of the fittest. Children grow up respecting their grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and whomever else made up the Tribe […]
So Long Summer
Summer is dwindling. Not fast enough for my taste, but the patient frog gets the fly… or something like that. I’m not a philosopher. Was last week not just the start of summer? Time flies when you are sweating your ass off. We did, however, wrap up the summer, as […]