Regarding “25,000 Mornings: 8 Ways to Improve Your Morning Routine”*
As of today, I’ve seen 13,002. I wonder how many of them have been without a pillowcase, without sheets, (only one corner of the fitted sheet loose) without pajamas, with […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Would You Rather? Game
Sewanee, TN – I play a game with the 12-year old whom I tutor called, Would you rather? We ask each other things like: Would you rather discover that the […]
So Now You Know Where I’m At
Beersheba Springs, TN – “Marathon. Marathon is the Greek word for fennel. In Latin, it’s foeniculum. In Spanish, it’s hinojo with a silent ‘h’. That one doesn’t follow like the […]
The Price of Closeness
Sewanee, TN – I remembered what the ranger told me in Arkansas: “Everything here is poisonous.” I was trying to adapt to life in Tennessee but it seemed like everything […]
Japanese Beetles
Sewanee, TN – I take offense to insects mating in front of me in the garden. When I agreed to dog-sit for my cousins for the summer, they wrote that […]
Order in the Court
Altamont, TN – If I was to learn rural Tennessee, I had to understand the people. My cousin, who sometimes mediates in the courts, offered to let me shadow him for […]
Champs Like Us 