“Buddy, that’s your own damn fault. All that running about and leaping you do just calls attention. You’re too rambunctious for your own good. No wonder the lions are always after you.”
Author: GESS
Brushing Them Off
Ernest came from old money and good genes… What to say about Lou? Louis Carrison III was the son of a steel magnate war veteran and a small-town restaurant owner with big ambitions who nursed a wounded soldier back to health and then married him. “It’s the stuff of romance novels and dramatic movies,” Lou was fond of saying, rather too enthusiastically, to anyone who would listen.
The Paper Boy
…once a month, I collect the payments for the paper. The dogs bark louder on those days, like they know what’s up. The old folks move slower too, I’d swear it on the bible. Ms. Carissa makes it all worthwhile, though.
Race Matters
I saw the story below about negative and racist reactions to the casting of some black actors in The Hunger Games movie.
Yachting in the Caribbean in June
Not in June or any month,
have I had the pleasure–if it is a pleasure–
of yachting in the Caribbean.
Grilling
Everything tastes better grilled. That seemed to the motto of adults during my childhood.
Kool-Aid with Everything
My grandmothers could do anything with Kool-Aid.
work, life, stress, pounds, and points
Apparently,
losing just a pound a month is a-okay