Category Archives: Virginia

How I Came To Big River And Other Lies

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Terry Taylor

The story has many versions. One of them has me showing up at Big River ten years ago with hair down to my ass, driving a red convertible with a six-pack and two strippers. That’s not true, no matter how … Continue reading →

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Son Of A Beach

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Beaches do to me what chocolate does to some people. Months can pass before I need chocolate. I went a year once. I cannot, however, do without a beach for that long. The smell of coconut oil and spawning fish in … Continue reading →

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BBQ, Rain, Mud, Wrecks and Rednecks (Part 2)

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Terry Taylor

The dirt track hugs wooden bleachers angling up about 25 feet into the damp Shenandoah wind. A man in a camo gimme cap with a belly big enough to have swallowed a small child chugs by wearing a painted-on-tight t-shirt, … Continue reading →

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BBQ, Rain, Mud, Wrecks and Rednecks (Part 1)

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Terry Taylor

I’ll get this out of the way right up front: I grew up in LA (meaning Lower Alabama). So when I speak of rednecks, it is not with disdain, but affection. I have changed a lot over the years since … Continue reading →

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Squirrels Are Eating My House

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Squirrels ate our tomatoes, yanking them from the vine, taking one bite and tossing them across the yard like a redneck throwing beer bottles and candy wrappers out of a truck window. Squirrels ate everything in our neighbor’s garden this … Continue reading →

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Welcome To I-95. Park Anywhere You Like.

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Terry Taylor

If you live on the East Coast, you know the notorious parking lot formerly called I-95. If you have ever driven up or down the East Coast from Richmond to Baltimore, you have sat on I-95 for hours, no doubt, … Continue reading →

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Shooting Our Inner Reptiles

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Almost 4,000 feet above sea level: you can smell the horsepower from up here on its way from Michigan. A runway stretches across the top of this mountain in Bath County, Virginia. The road that ends at the door of a … Continue reading →

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Want Pie With Your Goose?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Terry Taylor

We were driving through West Virginia last weekend. The countryside was beautiful, the sun was shining, it was porcelain cold on the other side of the windshield glass, snow stretched to the mountains on our right. Farms with humped barns … Continue reading →

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The Holes Of Winter

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The snow in Virginia continues. People who live in places like Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis see this yearly, and scoff at our confusion and school closings. But, to bastardize the phrasing of Scotty on Star Trek, Virginia is not built … Continue reading →

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Lights and Kremes

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Terry Taylor

When I was growing up, we weren’t exactly wealthy, to say the least. For entertainment during the holidays, my family (and sometimes friends) would brew up a Thermos of strong coffee, pile into the old Bel Air, fog up the … Continue reading →

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Gifts in the Yard

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Rudy loves to eat a big meal, ride around in the car, listen to seasonal music and look at Christmas lights. The sparkling strings hypnotize him into a holidaze. Last night we took him for a little ride through the … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood Curmudgeon

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Terry Taylor

We live in a neighborhood ruled by an “association.” Perhaps you know the situation. If not, here’s how it works. You live on a stereotypical cul-de-sac, pay a monthly fee (not a choice for us) and the association keeps up … Continue reading →

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Kicked in the Grass

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I have never had a green thumb; just the opposite. If I plant it, it will die, water and fertilize be damned. There was a time, however, when I could grow a nice stand of grass (not the kind people … Continue reading →

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The Big Mama of Bread

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Terry Taylor

It is not often that people drive forty miles to get a loaf of bread. We did. I’ve known Mark McIntyre, the owner, chef and chief baker at Norwood Cottage Bakery for years. His homemade artesian bread was rumored (on … Continue reading →

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Bass Pro Mojo

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Terry Taylor

A local newspaper recently voted the new Bass Pro Shop’s Outdoor World off I-95 north to be one of the ugliest buildings in Richmond. “Hideous,” is actually the word they used to describe the monstrously-glowing, pseudo-timbered ode to fishing and … Continue reading →

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