The two tractors pulled up side by side, two elderly farmers discussing the harvest, and the effect of the weather on the grapes. Their trailers, one full, one empty, who’s grapes were already being crushed and filtered finished their conversation and departed on their John Deer tractors.
Like many noncooks, I have a distinct yearning for the taste of yester-year. Martha has compiled a cookery book of recipes that appeal to our palette as well as our memories. I hate recipes where I have to know what is what and where to find it and which wine to serve with it. All [...]
This forgotten masterpiece was Steve Earle’s fourth release for the MCA Companies. Released in 1990, this was the follow up to another Steve Earle classic “Copperhead Road” and continued his tough stance image. During the recording of these pieces of music, it was well documented that Steve Earle was in the deepest of his heroin [...]
So, fresh faced, I head into my teens with a cigarette between my lips. With today’s laws, it is slightly harder for children or teens, to buy cigarettes or booze but now parents are relieved if that is all Suzie or Johnny are indulging in. With designer drugs on the upswing and less interaction between [...]
I hate cheating. I hate songs about cheaters. – Secret Lovers, As We Lay, any song that has to do with someone indulging in sexual pleasures with someone they ain’t got no business laying up with just makes me shake my head in disgust (although I’ll admit that musically, Me and Mrs. Jones is a [...]
In 1990, Megadeth released the platinum, essential metal CD, Rust in Peace. Heralded as a classic since, twenty years later, Megadeth commemorated this anniversary by touring the year of 2010 playing the entire CD as a whole for their fans. This tour was concluded with an evening at the legendary Hollywood Palladium and presented to [...]
There are many ways of being artful and making the invisible “visible.” I like to sit spontaneously doodling and scribbling with permanent gel pens.
I entered, rooms were full of sobbing tears from people’s eyes; there were too many people to count no children; they went straight to heaven. Gates and gardens to plant flowers in which to sow the seeds we should have been sowing on Earth; I forgot to sow. Shovels, buckets, seeds, planters, pots, hats, soil, [...]
Isn’t it funny how one place across this beautiful planet can affect you for the rest of your life; make you fall in love with it and want more. In my case it’s Malta, its people and its rich history. The tiny Maltese group of islands, fifty nautical miles south of Sicily in the Mediterranean, [...]
Writing Contemplations: Justifying the Impossible Or the Unlikely In Fiction. In the recent Blue Bloods season finale Jamie Regan (Will Estes), youngest cop in the show’s featured family of New York cops, reveals to dad Frank Regan (Tom Selleck) that he’s been quietly conducting his own investigation into the death of his brother Joe. “Why didn’t you [...]
