The son is leaving for his first year of college, and I spent his last week at home making his favorite foods. Parmesan-garlic chicken with penne pasta. Homemade meatballs. Pancakes. Bacon. A different kind of ice cream every day. (Oh wait, the ice cream was for me.) Read the full story
Most every afternoon at work, I tuck a dollar and a quarter in my pocket and head downstairs to the break room to get a $1.25 pack of peanut M&Ms out of the vending machine. Read the full story
It’s Monday afternoon, a little more than a week before the show opens. On a rehearsal stage at Jacksonville State University, two actors are moving slowly and methodically through a fight scene. Read the full story
When I look back over my long history as a homeowner, sometimes all I can see is a string of broken relationships. Read the full story
Most every afternoon at work, I tuck a dollar and a quarter in my pocket and head downstairs to the break room to get a $1.25 pack of peanut M&Ms out of the vending machine.
It’s Monday afternoon, a little more than a week before the show opens. On a rehearsal stage at Jacksonville State University, two actors are moving slowly and methodically through a fight scene.
When I look back over my long history as a homeowner, sometimes all I can see is a string of broken relationships.
Barbie turns 60 this year, which is causing a certain amount of hoopla.
The other day I had to look up how to spell “hip-hop.” Not the “hip” or the “hop” parts. I could handle those, thank you very much. But was there a space or a hyphen in the middle?
Jumpin’ juniper! It’s the last day of June already! I thought this month would never end.
Back when spring was new, I kept hearing a strange tapping, tapping outside my bedroom window. It sounded like a woodpecker pecking on the side of the house, except that we have vinyl siding.
I do love me some ice cream, but I have some concerns.
I try hard not to hate anybody or anything, but I am having some very unkind thoughts about housework.
They’re cold-blooded. They have fangs. They have eight legs and as many as eight eyes. What’s not to love?
The ground has also gifted me some mysterious and wondrous objects.
The ancient Greeks wrote things usingnospacesorpunctuationwhatsoever
Like most people, I need to set an alarm in order to wake up in the mornings.
Many years ago, I had what we used to call a “desk calendar.” I had a choice of weekly or monthly pages. There was only one cover choice: fake black leather.
Back in November, while working on a production of “Annie” for CAST community theater, Jacksonville State University drama professor Carrie Colton noticed something odd about the stage at the Anniston Performing Arts Center. It really wasn’t suitable for a musical theater show.
This is the story of how I met the devil.
One day last month the Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County called and asked if they could lock me in a room.
On Monday, there was a frog in the house, near the front door. On Tuesday, there was a frog in the kitchen. On Sunday, there was a frog in the mailbox.
One of my favorite book passages of all time is from humorist James Thurber’s “My Life and Hard Times,” a memoir about growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the early 1900s. He describes his grandmother, an otherwise formidable woman who lived her life in “the horrible suspicion that electricity …
Today, class, we are going to talk about “double negatives,” because how could I not not do it?
For 36 years and counting, Linda Levens has been driving the bookmobile for the Public Library of Anniston-Calhoun County, making her way on back roads out to Peek’s Hill, Eastaboga, Bynum, Alexandria and other parts of the county far from the main library in downtown Anniston.
Here are the books currently stacked on my nightstand:
Let’s talk about what’s on my fridge. (Not what’s IN my fridge. That would not be a humor column. That would be a horror story).
Near the intersection of Choccolocco Road and Bain’s Gap Road in eastern Calhoun County, in the community called Pleasant Ridge, lies a solitary grave.
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