Tag Archives: Personal Stories

The Dog Ate My Underwear

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Terry Taylor

I was going to write about business. People say I don’t do that enough. I had some ideas about Google’s new car and some thoughts about how companies are not the same company from day to day because people change … 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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The Never-Ending Yard Sale

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Our neighbors have a yard sale every month. On the same Saturday every thirty days, at ass-crack dawn, the guy next door opens his garage and pulls out the old chairs, a rack of odd clothes, boxes of mismatched what-nots … Continue reading →

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Meat In a Can

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Just to repeat: Meat in a can. I am laying those words on the page for a few seconds so the concept sinks in.  Meat. Can. Rub your fingers over the two words. Now smell your fingers. Do they smell … Continue reading →

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Dying For a Dilly Bar

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Traffic turned the asphalt of the Mobile Highway into a purring concert of rubber against road. Summer tourists drove south towards the Gulf Coast with Birmingham plates. I had been riding since early morning when the air was cooler, before … Continue reading →

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It Happened At The County Fair

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Terry Taylor

After reading an article about state fairs in the New York Times, I was reminded of the smells of a fair. It is a wholly unique aroma; part cotton candy, part funnel cake, part hot dogs, part candied apples, part … Continue reading →

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Branding Confidential (Part One)

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Terry Taylor

For the next few words, I am going to get a little Anthony Bourdain on you. That’s sort of a warning if you don’t like him, and an appetizer if you do. Branding schools are wonderful. The VCU Brand Center … Continue reading →

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My Neighborless Behavior

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Terry Taylor

I wake up early and nudge Rudy from doggy sleep inside his beloved crate where he snoozes like Bill the vampire on True Blood. Rudy stretches and runs immediately downstairs grabbing one of his dozens of tennis balls, some broken. … Continue reading →

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Pulling The Trigger

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The drug dealer pulled into the alley from the left, lights off, crunching broken glass and aluminum cans under the tires of his powder blue Caddy. A cigarette’s orange glow punctured the darkly tinted windows as he inhaled inside. I … Continue reading →

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Smoked Angus, Burnt Wieners and God Bless America

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Terry Taylor

In mid afternoon, the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Virginia issued an air quality alert. The Weather Bug app on my Droid relayed this stifling event to me. The message was like a tornado warning except instead of twisting air, … Continue reading →

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Two Harleys Beside the Road

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Temperatures dropped 13 degrees in about five minutes. The sky was pewter and gorged for rain. Light smoothed the rough edges of leaves and trees and the metal of passing cars. Two Harleys sat beside Atlee Station Road sporting for … Continue reading →

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Going To Hell In the Panhandle

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Terry Taylor

It is an interesting name: Tate’s Hell, a swamp in north Florida. I’ve been there once. The place wasn’t a state forest then. I don’t know who owned it, which was the case with a lot of places I wandered … Continue reading →

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Monkey Porn

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Terry Taylor

On a recent trip to a large, well-known zoo, my family and I strolled into the funky-smelling monkey house. Apes and gorilla’s of every brand lounged and hung, one-armed, from limbs behind the fences, moats and glass. When we got … Continue reading →

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Mower Redux

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Terry Taylor

A few blogs ago, I wrote about our new Honda mower, which is still running strong. I’m only writing about mowers again because I came across an old photograph of the first lawnmower we bought after my wife and I … Continue reading →

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Flying Squirrels blog

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Last Sunday, we decided to go to a baseball game. Richmond lost our Braves minor league team over a year ago. A new team moved into the ancient Diamond, a massive, 11,000 seat, 1970’s monument to un-eclectic symmetry and concrete, … Continue reading →

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