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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Amos Beals was an immense man, at least to my little kid eyes. Distantly related to my grandfather, Amos lived out in the country on a hardscrabble farm, and was perpetually clothed in a railroad engineer’s cap, bib overalls, or “biblicals” as he called ‘em, and [...] Blackberry Bruin [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Double Indemnity [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Planting the Seed [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “Got a minute?” he asked. I’d seen him around the area for the past few days. He was busy, landscaping mostly, installing water features, planting trees. He was a hard worker and so old I couldn’t even guess at his age. It didn’t seem to [...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Joggers and runners annoy me. Before my lovely bride Laura ventured off for several years occupying Afghanistan, allowing me to become a gentleman of leisure and relocate to my scenic country estate, we lived in an apartment in the city. While there, we acquired a canine, [...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Ah, yes – the holiday season. Most retailers and some consumers believe it starts in mid-September and continues through January 15. We are besieged by The Great Pumpkin, regaled with stories of The Pilgrims, who were, incidentally, not THE pilgrims but only pilgrims, beaten over the [...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Christmas Eve. From the time I was a young child until my late twenties, I spent it at my favorite Aunt and Uncle’s farm. My Aunt Myrna and Uncle Wayne, their son Gayle and his family, my grandparents, my mother and stepfather, me, and in later [...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] About 10 years ago, for the first time in quite a while, I went home for Christmas. Well, that’s not exactly true. Home is where my wife and I live. I returned to where I spent my childhood, where I walked the river, hunted pheasants, stalked [...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Some of the individuals who know me would tell you that Ol’ Lewis has yet to enter the 1990’s. Not true. I have recently plunged into the 2000’s. My bride and I, because we live in a very remote area have recently given up [...]
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Once upon a time I lived in Almost Arkansas, Missouri. In spite of how bizarre some southern Missouri towns are named, you will not find Almost Arkansas on any map, but it is there. I’ve seen it. Unlike the mythical “Lake Woebegon”, [...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Her name was Tessie Pyatt, and almost everyone was a little afraid of her. When I knew her in my childhood, she was a small, old, widow-woman with a walnut-wrinkled face, heavily veined hands, and half a nose. Shortly after World War One and the death, [...] |
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