Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
This year's Mile of Music festival, led by its fedora tipping spokesperson Cory Chisel, turned out to be a big ole toast to family. We saw sibling bands and bands who bonded like brothers. We spent most of four days with a nice variety of our own family members on the Avenue and saw more [...]
I'll fold the load of towels in my drier on Monday. I haven't worked out in two days, and won't cook a meal until next week. Mile of Music is back in town and we intend to spend every minute we can prowling the Avenue welcoming back old friends and discovering new ones. A song [...]
Dear Internet, I’m not that nerdy, I swear. I know how that last post made it seem. Believe me, if I had seen pictures of some teenage girl huddled in front of a computer screen cuddling an accordion, I would’ve thought she was a nerd too. I don’t blame you Internet. We don’t really have [...]
We offered to get Molly a Smartphone for her birthday next month, but she politely declined. She's been consistent in her loyalty to old school forms of communication, and only reluctantly hauled a lap top to a summer writing program she attended in Boston. "I found a perfect study spot," she told me -- not [...]
Embedded in the rocking bass, threaded through the punk black clothes, blasts a message so inspiring I had to grin as I watched Eminence perform Friday afternoon-- girls rock. They rock with confidence and passion. They rock with joy. They rock with talent and the exact right kind of disregard. They rock the stage and, [...]