Smokey Mountain Breakdown

I wake up this morning to a crisply, cold mountain morning. The quality of the light is just a wee bit hazy, but the sky is that amazing ro...

Well. It's been almost a year since I posted. I'm a slacker. I've been neglecting Buzznet and Flikr so it's not just the ...

'Cause apparently I'm going to Hell in one. I was informed at great length yesterday that I was doomed to hellfire. Not in a bad wa...

My life is in one of its insanely busy times. If you told me I was going to be this crazed when I quit working, I just wouldn't have be...

I have a confession to make. I voted for Nixon. Yes, it's true. In 1968 Mrs. Nivers' first grade class participated in a mock elec...

I spent most of yesterday worming and vaccinating the goats. I'd go down to the paddock with a bucket of grain and bring them up singly...

Tis the season of small sacrifices. I recently harvested this bouquet of roosters to put in my freezer. They are such lovely things that I ...

I've been following the idiocy of the recent outrage over the White House cards and tree with my usual slack-jawed dumbfoundedness. Chr...

Skillet Cookies My family's traditional Christmas cookie. 1 stick butter 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 1 package chopped dates 1 tablespoon vanill...

They are like some Dickensian nightmare that seems to crawl from under the modern Christmas Present’s robes during and after times of great ...

My talent for melding into cultures different from own has led me into some interesting situations. The axiom I try to follow is, "Ke...

Die by the sea...Lie by the sea Posted by: rosiewolf . Tennessee is my second home, the home of my adulthood. I grew up, as did all of my ...

The box office of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphries Theater in Dallas is shaped like a coffin. I was there working during Adrian Hall’s...

I was ten years old and putting my ballet slippers on in the cold, dank old jalopy of a building off Victory Drive in Savannah that served...

Mike Brown's Afterlife Interview Posted by: rosiewolf . I'm not sure if they've called Mike Brown back to DC to fire him orgiv...

Barbara Antoinette Posted by: rosiewolf . In fairness to Marie Antoinette, she did not actually say, "Let them eat cake". It was...

Bush/Katrina '05 Posted by: rosiewolf . Declaration of New Orleans by Charles Montesquieu Saturday, Sep. 03, 2005 at 3:24 AM charli...

The Virtuoso Posted by: rosiewolf . The only person you have the ability to muzzle is yourself. Yes. I'm talking to you. I will cont...

Baron Samedi Bush Posted by: rosiewolf . If I hear him say the results are "not acceptable" while failing to step up and take re...

Rosie's Cocker Rescue Referral http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/TN327.html Rosie's Cocker Rescue Referral and Old Maid's...