Tag Archives: Virginia

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 →

Posted in Food, Travel, Virginia | Tagged , | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in Travel, Virginia | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in Entertainment, Holidays, Humor, Personal Stories, Richmond, Virginia | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in Humor, Personal Stories, Richmond, South, Virginia | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Racing To Change

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Terry Taylor

When I was a kid in Montgomery, Alabama, my dad took me to the Montgomery International Speedway on Saturday nights to watch men like Donnie and Bobby Allison race Red Farmer and maybe some shade-tree mechanics from Prattville or Wetumpka … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous People, South, Sports, Virginia | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Our Tax Dollars Hard At Work

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In Virginia we have potholes on some of our highways deep enough to burst a tire and warp the rim. “Hey, Bob, I think I ruptured a kidney on the way to work this morning.” We have a car tax … Continue reading →

Posted in Government, Humor, South, Virginia | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Strike Three, We’re Out

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Terry Taylor

It hurts to lose a baseball game. It hurts even more to lose your entire team. Tweet This Post

Posted in Richmond, Sports | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Glue #10: From Police to Wrestling to Brokers

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Richmond, Virginia, police may have found a way to Glue police to criminals, a feat not easily pulled off in other cities. Tweet This Post

Posted in Glue, Government, Richmond | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Rivers and Splotches

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Last weekend, my son Jake and I drove over to the inleted shores of northeastern Virginia, around the York River, the Rappahannock River, the Piankatank River, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. Tweet This Post

Posted in Food, Personal Stories, Virginia | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The Tomato War

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Inside the mouths and bellies and minds of Southerners, a war has been raging for years. OK, the conflict has mostly been in my own mind, but I did my best to start a bigger fight. Tweet This Post

Posted in Alabama, Food, Humor, Personal Stories, Richmond, Virginia | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

A Hundred Yards and a Bucket of Blood.

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Terry Taylor

The rain came early and hard. The thunder and lightning came next. It went on all night and stayed in the morning. No one cared. They came for a reason and everyone who had a reason got what they came … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Coworkers, Personal Stories, South, Virginia | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

DNA On The Grill

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Summer is officially here with Memorial Day past and the torched meaty smell of smoky perfume in my backyard every afternoon. People are grilling. Tweet This Post

Posted in Food, Personal Stories, Richmond, Virginia | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Gas Station Food and Sweet Iced Tea

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Some people are food snobs. You know the ones, they run to the newest restaurant opening, fawn over the hot local chef, eat things that should be used as bait. I have never been accused of being a food snob. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Humor, Personal Stories | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Roy’s Big Burger

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Just a little piece north of Richmond, Virginia, on Lakeside Avenue amid the 1940-ish neighborhood and the plethora of auto repair establishments, there wafts the aroma of the 1960s. In a ramshackle square of a building straight out of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Richmond, Virginia | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Southern Tourist Attractions

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Terry Taylor

Recently, I was in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on a shoot with Dee Briggs, and we happened by Rock City on top of Lookout Mountain, the granddaddy of Southern tourism icons. “See Rock City”, the barns, Ruby Falls — it made me … Continue reading →

Posted in Coworkers, Richmond, South, Tennessee, Travel, Virginia | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off