On March 7th and 8th, Carol attended the annual ‘Writing Today’ conference at my alma mater, Birmingham-Southern College, in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a great conference for Carol, and a chance for us to see how much the school has grown since we left in 1969, and to hear and meet the famous writer Walter Mosley, author of… Read More »
Today, January 2, 2008, we woke up to the second day of the new year here in Bloomington with about an inch of snow on the ground, and the thermometer on our deck hanging right at zero degrees Fahrenheit, or maybe a degree below zero. On New Year’s Day, we had a traditional Southern noontime New Year’s Day… Read More »
At the age of 8 months he was struck a glancing blow by a car. The vet managed to save him from the concussion, and put a steel pin in one shoulder bone. It stayed there the rest of his life and never slowed him down. Until just a few years ago, he could still climb the 4×4… Read More »