On Second Thought
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. ~Bertolt Brecht We all know that television heroes aren’t the real deal. But …
“…to Junior’s mind, there had always been cicadas. But sometime, long before he could remember, he’d been on his father’s hip, looking …
From garden to jar, canning is a celebration of nature’s gifts. ~ Unknown Back in the 70s, I would do a little …
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Put more succinctly by …
There is a great deal of ambiguity in Merriam-Webster’s definition of the word reckless: marked by lack of property caution: careless of …
Build good fences, make good friends, and keep your laundry indoors. ~ A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten All good advice, though some …
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting. ~Adolph “Ad” Reinhardt Guilty as charged. Bucolic …
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing …
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can’t get through the mesh to bite you. …
The first scone is what I like to call the practice scone. It not until the third -nay fourth- that you develop …
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort …
For my grandmother’s generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it’s the …