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Dec 11 1982

At 1301 West 38th Street in Indianapolis sits the Woodstock Club.  The West Fork of the White River is a stone’s throw away and that rivers meanders through Indiana and then falls into the Wabash River.  On the night they made me, my father took my mother to the Woodstock Club to a Holiday Dinner…

Gravy Rules

Gravy can be finicky. So while watching my mom make it, I asked her to explain her gravy rules for a cooking simpleton like me. This is what she said: If you don’t want your gravy to taste like milk, you use water. Fried chicken dinner, you would want to use milk. I also use…

Forty

Forty really came in swinging last year, letting me know in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that I am aging.   At first there were little signs like the sudden ability to sit and stare at a bird feeder, watching the birds come and go and getting a real thrill when a new birdie showed up. …

aliens or…?

I have never had an alien encounter except for every spring when the hosta returns.

Billy Madison, the sequel?

Once a week, I go to library time for my son’s kindergarten class. The children like to take turns asking me to read a page from a book. This is a French school, so all the books are in French, and the best way to describe how I sound when I read in French is…hmmmm,…