This past January, we had record snow along the Gulf Coast (mind you, this was back in the olden’ days, when “gulf” still meant the Gulf of Mexico). I should have made time for a blog post about it, seeing as it really was a significant amount of snowfall for this part of the world…
This will be a short post. Definitely not an ambitious one. It’s summer time. To be specific, it’s July. And where I live, that means heat, hurricanes, and the half-way-back-to-school-again mark. Which means I’m running out of time. All the grand plans made back in May (yes, May is when the kids get out here,…
I’ll be honest—I’ve forgotten half of the past decade. But I still remember clearly the day I first read through The Silmarillion. I was fourteen, in possession of an obligation-free Saturday and a new book—a thick, daunting son of a bitch, with cover art drawn by Tolkien himself. I’d read The Hobbit and The Lord…
The first thing you should know about me is that I have a bad habit of putting the cart before the horse. I leap head-first into ambitious endeavors with all the enthusiasm of a sugar-charged three-year old careening toward a ball pit at Chuck E Cheese. Feasibility, you say? Nay. My completionist brain catalogs every…