Tag Archives: Family

The Door From Hell

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Terry Taylor

We recently had to install a new door on the back of our house. We didn’t choose to do this without duress. It was a necessity. The old Pella fell off. It literally dislodged itself from the wall as if … Continue reading →

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Death, Guaranteed

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Terry Taylor

If you have ever had the unpleasant duty to bury a loved one, you know the gig. The somber funeral home representative has a respectful talk with the family about the deceased, who will do their hair and what will … Continue reading →

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The End of Mystery

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Terry Taylor

We want to know everything. We want all the answers. We skip to the end of the book, we FF through the movie, we dip our fingers in the cake batter and taste the salmonella. We suck the whip cream … Continue reading →

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Redneck Environmentalist

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Terry Taylor

He didn’t know it, but my grandfather was an ‘environmentalist’ long before the terminology was popular. He was also a ‘redneck’ before the term was hijacked to the dark side. Forgive me, Mr. Foxworthy, but everyone was technically a redneck … Continue reading →

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Sometimes You Just Have To Lie

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I had stopped by, as I often do, to check on her since she was ninety-six years old and had started drinking again after fifty-eight years of sobriety. The small figurine that had stood erect for seventy-eight of those ninety-six … Continue reading →

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The Deck

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I am sitting on the deck surrounded by people I don’t know. We are heading for Cozumel. The sun is aching to escape a bank of pumpkin colored clouds that brush across the western sky and turn the Gulf of … Continue reading →

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Shakira! Shakira!

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Friday, Cozumel, Mexico, a long day in port. Most people go to Senor Frog’s down in town or the ½ Senor Frog’s next to the new docking pier. Hurricane Wilma crushed the place in 2005, including folding the docks into … Continue reading →

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Haiti

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Terry Taylor

To the left, there is a scribble of sand so thin a hurricane could scrape it like a waiter wiping crumbs off the white linens of a cruise ship dinner table. It is one of the Turks and Caicos Islands. … Continue reading →

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The Light is Different

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Terry Taylor

My wife and I once drove from Fort Worth to Colorado Springs starting at 9 pm, a dumb idea, even for people more stupid than I am. But we did it. We’d driven from college at the University of Alabama … Continue reading →

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Pickled Irony

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Maybe contradiction is the religion of the South but irony is its daily bread. Yesterday, several of us sat outside, enjoying the cool sunshine of a sidewalk café beside Richmond’s Main Street in the lowest part of the geographic bowl … Continue reading →

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Rudy And The Blueberry Birds

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Terry Taylor

My mother is 84 years old, hard of hearing and has three blueberry bushes in her backyard. Each produces a different kind of blueberry. I have no horticultural bent so I am not aware of the species or varieties. I … Continue reading →

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Rudy’s New Thing

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Terry Taylor

RUDY JOURNAL: STARDATE APRIL 2008:  Rudy, our Jack Russell, has begun to expand his menu of tricks. A few months ago, we noticed that he had added a new move to his repertoire of ball chasing. He knows words too. … Continue reading →

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Aqua Lung

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Terry Taylor

My father died from complications of pneumonia. My great grandfather died in his forties from it. Pneumonia has always seemed foreign to me, like cancer or the plague. It is something people get just before they die. Tweet This Post

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The Difference Between Writers and Storytellers

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Terry Taylor

You have heard this before. Newspapers are dying, if not dead. No one reads books anymore. The Internet is going to images and words are being left in the digidust.  Ironically, the written word’s obit gets rewritten every day. The … Continue reading →

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Wht ru txting?

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I find the texting craze that is so fashionably addressed toward teens to be amusing. I have seen several TV commercials making fun of parents for being clueless on the language of texting. That said; I probably send 40-50 text … Continue reading →

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