Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season – Part the Third
Today is the first anniversary of the final U.S. landfall of Hurricane Katrina. I thought this would be the ideal day to post the final installment of my hurricane “memoirs.”Read “Part the Second” of...
View ArticleWalking On Broken Glass
When we got back from our first vacation this year, back in February, I had been walking downtown for several weeks, trying to get in shape and get my cholesterol levels down. Around that same time,...
View ArticleThe State of the Estate
A coworker and I went to what was advertised as an “estate sale” out in midtown Mobile today. When we finally found the right street, the sign said “yard sale.” When we pulled into the driveway, the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities
(Names have been censored to protect the guilty.) Saturday night was a night full of contrasts. We started the night by seeing the Mobile Opera Guild perform Verdi’s La Traviata at the Mobile Civic...
View ArticleJust Plane Crazy
It’s 11 p.m. Do you know where your wife is? At 11 p.m. last Friday, my wife was filling out forms to try to track down her lost luggage. She flew from St. Louis to Dallas, then to Memphis and home to...
View ArticleIf It Doesn’t Make Sense, You May Be A Mosquito
“I’m off to walk around Downtown Mobile,” I said. “That goes without saying,” replied a coworker. “Snarky” rules at the Fish-Wrapper. While moseying around the bar and restaurant section of Dauphin...
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