“National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) is an annual spring campaign held at the start of construction season to encourage safe driving through highway work zones. The key message is for drivers to use extra caution in work zones.” National Work Zone Awareness Week began Monday (4/8). It is scheduled to end on Friday (4/12). … Continue reading Get Your Orange on And Slow Your Ass Down

I have a routine. For those sporting events that I have an interest in watching: I always record them. I never watch anything live, even if I am just a minute behind real time. I do this for multiple reasons, one of which is the elimination of any needless superstition on my part. My logic … Continue reading Basketball and All Things Brilliant

I began this entry on Friday evening and in a relatively short time, I had written close to 1500 words. A couple of cycles of editing on Saturday and I was ready to post it to my blog. I didn’t and I won’t. What I had written was no better or worse than any of … Continue reading In Defense Of Transparency

  I love strawberries and I have always had a thing for possums. There is no doubt that my fondness for all thing’s possum has continued to grow since Heather arrived in town. Possums, much like Heather, are not always given the credit they are due. Though I have yet to see a possum with … Continue reading Possum Covered Strawberries and Other Underappreciated Things.

When I received advance notice of James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt coming to Rupp, I immediately ordered tickets. It did not take but an instant thereafter for me to turn right around and order another set for some friends of ours. To me, this was what was this concert was about: Friends. You see, my … Continue reading Friends or Friends of a Friend

Looking back, my time in the 6th grade class was one of the more rewarding in my pursuit of a higher learning. I think now it was due to a combination of two important things:  A great set of teachers and a clash of hormones. The combination of the two can produce memorable times. It … Continue reading I Blame It All on Mrs. Gray

In my younger days, on the route to Dewey Lake you turned at the stop where Brandy Keg Creek met the Levisa. After the turn, and not quite a mile up Brandy Keg, you arrived at Landon Charles’s(?) bait, tackle and grocery store. Here you could head on straight to Dewey Lake or turn right … Continue reading The Keg

It is a Sunday. It is also Father’s Day. The weather, here in The Burg, is perfect for this day. It will be a day of wistful reflection for many. I day of unbridled celebration for others. For many it will pass without note. For me, it will involve some of each. Days like today … Continue reading People Get Ready

If you want to try and make a difference, 2 names and 50 bucks is all it takes. Paula told me if I were going to run for office again that I couldn’t feature Travis and Parker in my campaign materials. She thinks no one will take me serious. To me, that is on them … Continue reading 2 Names and 50 Bucks

The Free State of Appalachia –  I like my new tee shirt that I got from “The Free State of Appalachia”.  Both of them. This is one. The other, for another day soon, is green. I know the yellow one is my favorite. I love the yellow one best. They don’t have one yet. So, … Continue reading The Free State of Appalachia Meets the Free State of Being: Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Day