To The Manner Born

Mark your calendar. I'll be back November 10. Need a little vacation first. Toad

I was at the barber earlier this week. Long time readers may recall the woman who cuts my hair is gorgeous, and barely street legal. As a ...

I don't care to have that happen to me! Friends, I have thought about this long and hard for the past several weeks, and I have finally...

Much of my misspent youth was centered around River City and its environs. If you took a generous view of what constituted a suburb, many o...

Those days you can't wait to get everyone out of the house? Or look forward to a half hour alone in the car? Those days you just want ...

I had begun this post several days ago. Then things turned ugly crazy around here, and I stopped, picked it up again, stopped, and decided ...

I know, my closet is full, but I have this suede shoe thing. The shoes are on EBAY, my size, and I am selling two things whose auctions clos...

Gentlemen: My father in law, Oscar the Grouch, generally begins these sorts of lectures with, " Free advice is worth what you pay for ...

Ladies, please work with me here. It's Friday, late afternoon. You've had a tough week. Your beloved, who has thoughtfully sent th...

This is another great idea that has a thousand fathers, and whose fate may depend upon you and one very creative woman. For the past couple ...

Mrs. T's TIVO never, ever shuts off. It can be infuriating at 1:30 Am to try to watch a program only to find TIVO is already recordi...

Mrs. T well understands that if bill paying fell under my area of responsibility we would be homeless in several months. For better or worse...

I am uncertain whether Mel of I Pick Pretty will remember this shoot. Taken at a UT football tailgate party. One can tell it's Texas...

Mrs. T and I were discussing the upcoming wedding of the daughter of friends and a question arose neither of us could answer. I look to yo...

It's tough being owned by the world's dumbest dog. When he understood that the universe revolves around him, and that humans are on...

I've been taking a ramble through post WW 1 Africa lately. Idina Sackville's biography, Out of Africa by, and West Through the Nigh...

I am not so naive to suspect that I am the only male blogger to receive this email. If you are interested in photography and especially ...

Off and on for many years I've kept a notebook of pithy sayings, ads that caught my eye, cartoons, notable quotes and generally good ide...

Last weekend, Melissa recommended the Bryant and May mysteries of Christopher Fowler. I prefer reading series from beginning to end, but th...

Thursday was strange at The Park. We went to bed late. As I was about to turn out the lights, I noticed a bat flying around our ceiling fan...