If Mrs. Wigglebottom Dies, Here’s What Happened

So, as you know, I am in the middle of Stage Two of the Great Flea Kill of Aught Ten, which, before it involves spray which everyone has to be outside the house for, involves powder, which the dog is LICKING when she thinks I’m not looking. I repeat LICKING!!!! Like maybe, just maybe, it’s [...]

Saturday Blues

Blah blah blah. Do some dishes. Eradicate some fleas. Ha, when I put it like that, it doesn’t seem so bad. I just have a two item to-do list. Never mind it will take me all day. Here’s a funny story. So, I walk the dog in the morning. And I come in and peel [...]

Check This Out For Me

I set up a page devoted to the book. Check it here. Or look up to the top of your screens, if you’re reading this on the site. Does everything work? $14.99 for a 220 page book? Seem okay? Is the .99 funny? Should it be .95? Just $15.00? Does anyone even agonize over that [...]

Two Things You Should Not Miss

1. This Friday Mix-Up. 2. How to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew.

We Had Something Which Was Taken From Us… Sort of

I read this awesome essay over at The Rejectionist. I agree with 99% of it. I would like to agree with 100% of it, but I can’t silence my nagging doubts about Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I’m trying to thread a fine needle here, so bear with me. In her essay, Meminger talks a lot in [...]

The Book Jacket

Whew, There’s a Lot Going On

–A friend of mine voted in the Republican primary. There’s been a lot of talk about Democrats switching races to vote for the candidate McWherter could most win against. My friend crossed because she’s terrified of Wamp and Ramsey and wants to make sure they don’t get on the ballot. I wonder how many Dems [...]

Okay, Historians, Why Does My Mirror Weigh So Much?

So, obviously, yesterday, I was called on to move my mirror outside. It must weight a shit-ton. At least a mirror-shit-ton. I’m going to guess at least 25 lbs. Why does it weigh so much? Here’s what I know. It’s old. At least 100 years. My mother has referred to it as “the silver mirror.” [...]

The Coyotes are Down from the Hills

Coyotes around here, normally, if they come down into the fields and yards, are very quiet about it. You can hear them up in the hills fairly often, but not down here where folks are. Which is not to say that the coyotes aren’t down here pretty regularly, just that they aren’t primarily living here. [...]

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Best Sunflower of Them All?

Go Vote for This

Not just because Brittney Gilbert is a long-time FOTCP, but because once you start hearing “Where has all of the oil gone? Maybe it never was as bad as they said,” you can count the seconds until folks along the Gulf are going to find America has moved on to the next shiny new disaster. [...]

I Can’t Stop Looking!

I have, as you know, been in stunned love with the interior since I first saw it. The font is just delicious and the layout encourages just the right pauses. So, I’ve been flipping back and forth between the interior and the exterior, trying to imagine how they’ll go together. I cannot wait. On the [...]

I Have Seen the Cover!

I spent the evening talking about all aspects of publishing with the guys over at The Nashville Feed. I’ll link to it when the podcast comes up, but I gave props to the commenting skills of Sarcastro and gushed about the Joiners. It was a good time. And they have this idea for having a [...]

Oh, Wow. Check this out!

The TSLA has a new online exhibit about Tennessee disasters. It’s very cool. And, because I am dying for you to read the ghost stories, here’s a teaser from “The Devil’s Cursed Gold,” in which a TSLA employee inadvertently plays into the Devil’s hand. Paul Turner was a history professor at Vanderbilt, whose focus was [...]

Damn You, JR Lind and Your “Reporting the Facts.”

Whatever. It’s not like I had my hopes all up or anything. Also, damn you Illinois, for possibly getting to see this! I shake my fist at Illinois and JR!!!!!

I Love Miranda Lambert

I can’t help it.

Tractor Supply Co., You’re No Farm & Fleet, but I Still Love You

Number of fleas I found on me yesterday first thing in the morning? Between thirty and forty. Number of fleas I found on me this morning first thing? One. The stuff I got, you’re supposed to use once a week every place animals sleep. I’ll be honest. I didn’t get every place, because the Butcher [...]

Mrs. Wigglebottom v. the Hoof

I went out to that great pet place in Bellevue by the Captain D’s and they were like “Um, just call a professional.” I said, “I don’t have the money for that.” But they also concurred that Frontline’s efficacy is going down. So, I drove clear up to Ashland City, to what I think of [...]

In Which I Announce that Timothy Demonbreun is My History-Boyfriend

And I start stoking the fires of a campaign to get Charlotte Reeves Robertson a statue. Or a dog park! I just thought of that. No, that would be terrible. One should not make light of the terrible things done in battle. But, no, I’m sorry. The Charlotte Reeves Robertson Dog Park would be hilariously [...]

Tennessee’s Angriest Gubernatorial Candidate is Angriester

Every other day, there is a story that comes out about our Gubernatorial candidates that makes you wonder if we’re not all having some elaborate practical joke played on us, like, at any minute, some sane candidates are going to come out and be all like, “Just kidding, folks. Vote for us.” But this is [...]

Tired

It’s really hard to sleep when you imagine every tiny movement or thing brushing your leg is a horde of fleas descending upon you to feast. I’m headed to the vet this morning to talk to them about a.) something other than Frontline, which, bless its heart, has given up the ghost here and b.) [...]

In Book News

Beth sent me this article, which I now share with you.

True Blood–In Which Sookie is Dumb

Um, Sookie, you just saw how vampires die. And Bill did not do that. So, I think the screaming is a little much. On the other hand, so long, annoying woman. Take the silver off him, though, dumbass. Sam’s gun, which is never locked, in his never locked car. How is that not the most [...]

In Nashville, We Have a Lot of Metal Men

Cricket!

We went and watched a cricket match today and I got so sunburnt I about can’t tell you. But it was awesome! It was so beautiful out, hot, but with a cool breeze, and the cricket players were so damn nice. They gave us water! And they cheered. I don’t know. It was just wonderful.