Growing Bolder Community

In a musing I published a few years ago, I wrote about returning to my home town to attend my 55th Class Reunion. This was after a 40 year absence. In that musing, I sadly touched on the degrading physical state of my home town. I also wrote about seeing some of my classmates after four decades. Several readers, including some of my classmates, wrote to say they felt I accurately commented...

It sometimes happens; I found myself in the food court of our local mall around lunch time. What better time for a slice of pizza and a diet coke. (They offset each other in my diet book). It was a weekday and school was still in session so the crowd, in general, was a bit older. It was mostly twenty five and older, evening split around age fifty five. As I sat there I watched those who where...

I guess when it comes to talking about sex (as opposed to sexually talking while actively engaged), we each have our set of guidelines and rules. For some, the topic is off limits with just about everyone. For others, more so with women it seems, they limit the talk about sex in their lives to a few friends of the same sex. . Of course there may be sexual innuendos, mostly by men, couched...

Saturday afternoon, I took a ride down to Suburban Drive to shoot a video of the site where Caylee Marie Anthony was found. It’s been two years since she was tossed into those dark and lonely woods like a bag of trash and I wanted to give you another glimpse at how it might have looked back then. I knew before going there that the area where her bones were discovered had been cleared out and...

“Y’all come on in here, now – do ‘ya hear me? Supper’s on the table.” “Ma, I ain’t finished watching this cartoon.” “It don’t matter – get on in here.” “Now, let’s get the blessin’ out of the way before we eat. Dear Lord . . . “ “Darn it, ma! Every time we start to eat, that stupid phone rings!” “Well, it’s helpin’ to put food on the table so you...

Recently I heard two oldie songs that although different, in my mind touched upon the same theme. The first song was sung by Barbara Streisand. The title is The Way We Were; part of the lyrics are: Memories Like the corners of my mind Misty watercolor memories Of the way we were The other, Those Were The Days, was made popular by Peggy Lee. A few lines from its lyrics are:...

Obama Breeze is a play on the Darden restaurant chain, Bahama Breeze. I’d been tossing the idea around in my head for a month or so, and then, darn if he didn’t go ahead and win the election. I figured, sure, why not give it a try. Then I thought, with a couple of choice words like that, there should be a drink to go along with it. The following recipe is one I came up with...