Did I really just see that on the news? Really? A clump of what they believe is Elvis's hair went on the auction blocked and fetched something with multiple zeroes after it? The picture on the news made me reel back in horror. It was a black, snarled tangle of hair, supposedly shaved off when Elvis famously joined the Army around the time of the ...
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It was a summer of interruption. “Summerus Interruptus,” I called it and I can’t remember another summer like it. Maybe its because there are four kids and two dogs and every time someone walks by our lawn the dogs bark, as if to defend their turf.
I am not kidding. I went to search for the bullet and it has disappeared. Truly. I kid you not.
There it was. A bullet in my sink. That’s right, a bullet. We’d been gone all summer and we came home to find a bronze metal bullet standing straight up like a bra cup in my stainless steel sink.
I thought nothing of this. My husband ...
Well. Summer's over. I mean it isn't really over, it's not yet Labor Day. Outside it's as steamy as a Turkish Bath and even the dogs are having dog days this August. They are sleeping, listless in the heat and without the energy to bark. But I'm home. I've left our summer cottage, driven back down south with reams of clothes and papers and food in ...