I knew something was wrong when Twila gave me the stink eye outside the student union. Divorces are difficult enough. Being young – too youn...

In the spring of 1998, I called home this attic in a 131 year old house in Lexington, Kentucky. It was a decent place. I’d fou...

I let her lead the way up the stairs and while we were walking she hummed this funny little tune to herself, and every time I tried talk...

Ethel knew there was just something not right about the boy, and she could never quite lay her finger on what it was. He ran around lik...

I knew something was wrong when Twila gave me the stink eye outside the student union. Divorces are difficult enough. Being young – to...

Drunks love chocolate. That’s one of the things they don’t tell you before you show up to a meeting. No one told me I should show up ear...

Rockabilly Billy and the Texas 5 was into their 5th set in two days.  Himself had not yet slept a wink and did not look the least bit w...

  The road stretched and bucked for three full days of driving, and eventually unknotted itself outside of The Place. I knew we was ther...

Stop fighting it, Pilgrim George, Himself. He pushed his keys into my hand. We got to be at The Place three days hence and we cannot lin...

It's all settled then! Himself stood and crowed so loud it shook the whole bar. It damn near shook it out of the tree. Now liste...

Before I could say anything else, Julia Dream was standing next to the table. She smiled down at me, her full lips curled up in a funny l...

  Well, I'm no musician, and I told him so. He didn't seem all that concerned about it. We got all the musical talent we need. ...

 [If you missed the first part, read it here ] Everyone spent what seemed like forever giving me shit for blushing. Wasn't my fa...