Yesterday (Sunday) and we’re wondering what to do since the forecast is predicting rain (which it DIDN’T until late that night). So Roy and I take his youngest daughter and take off to the Books-a-Million for a little browsing and cups of Caramel flavored coffee.
Roy looked over a lot of the photography books, while [...]

July, 2009. The City of Nashville, TN wants to ban the keeping of pet chickens in the city. However, they just passed legislation to allow guns in bars and state parks. Make sense to anyone else?

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
I’ve read this book three times. Jane Smiley has such a way with words and creates such a clear and vivid world, that everyone who reads her work wants to become a writer. Such passages as:
In spite of the price of gasoline, we took a lot of rides that year, [...]