music musings the family

Sunday soundcheck*

Sunday morning in Memphis. Old School Freight Train is on the iTunes, water is on the stove boiling for coffee, and biscuits are waiting to be put in the oven. Yes, they’re frozen but they deserve respect because they will be delicious. The AC is earning its keep up above me. It’s a trip having your own central air. You Midtown people know what I’m talking about, I’m sure. That quiet chilly breath on your…

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relationships

A story about a story

I’m working on this story about a boy and a girl who like each other but the boy has these weird hangups where he is absent during important moments in the girl’s life. Times like when she needs help moving, when she throws her housewarming, that time she has to drive herself to the emergency room, those times her out-of-town friends come to visit and to meet her other friends, that party she throws, that…

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gardening yardlust

Plant-tential

The Rose of Sharon stick my mother gave to me that she’d ordered from the Arbor Day Foundation has been sitting in a pot of dirt, diligently watered for more than a month now, and it has finally sprung a tiny green leaf, just above the dirt. Huzzah. So sometimes sticks do turn into trees, if you leave them in dirt long enough. Heh. That is not at all true but it sounds like a…

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Bitchy McComplainsalot people suck

Mail fail

Oh, First World Problems. I ordered two packs of miracle berry pills at around 9 p.m. Friday, May 14. I needed them for the following Sunday for Randal’s going-away party, so I figured three- to five-day shipping would give them plenty of time to make it to me. I got nervous when the next Friday rolled around and they still weren’t here. I tracked the package and saw that it had shipped the night of…

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