Category Archives: incidents and accidents

Thunderstruck Road and Longbeard Lane.

Tiger swallowtails, red admirals, cabbage whites, dragonflies, moths. PRAYER. Sovereign Grace Church. Pilot Meth. (Church). Colt’s foot, phlox, dandelions, blackberry vines, poison ivy, mayapples, ferns, irises. Thunder, lightning, soft rain, fog.  Rivers and creeks. One rusting Karmann Ghia and two Volkswagen beetles. Pastures and dirt roads. Canoes and trucks. The Floyd Church of Christ Greets [...]

Not my fault

Learn from my mistakes.

Trust your instinct to stay home when you wake up with an exceptionally bad headache and nausea. Do not, instead, drive the 20 miles to work like a chump. Be at least grateful that you get to the office at 7 when very few people are there. Do not work in an office that makes [...]

Nature is red in whiskers and fluffy tail

Since I am now not even remotely Twitter famous, let me quote myself from there this weekend: “Bruised and scraped the hell out of my knee yesterday scrambling to get away from a bear. Yeah, okay, I tripped over a rabbit. A RABBIT.” I tripped over a rabbit Saturday afternoon, folks. I was out walking, [...]

Carrion/Questions

There were two of them sitting shoulder to shoulder, quiet and still. I don’t know why they were sitting together or what they were waiting for or why that particular street lamp was so appealing, but I do know that seeing two rather large vultures crowded onto one street lamp first thing in the morning [...]

Rotary, part 2

Elise sent me this photo to let me know that Natalie not only likes the phone but mysteriously knows how it works. AWESOME. Steve informs me he managed to get 2 quarters out of the phone too. I knew I should have checked it more closely before I gave it away.

Seen and heard

Terrible dancing, muffin tops, regrettable Facebook photos in the making, at least one black midgets in a tutu, gold leggings, more drag queens than expected, art, breasts, peens, bicycles, police escorts, acoustic Karma Police, trying too hard, tart commentary, marble stairs, more marble stairs, LEDs, wigs, support hose, surprise Adam’s apples, hot pants, knee socks, [...]