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About Me

I have two beautiful, inquisitive, cantakerous children, whom I adore. My job is to be in a band called Big Smith with my brother and cousins and fiddle player. And don't forget Roger. I write songs and play and sing for a living. Is that not a gas? I used to write some poems and stories and teach English at Missouri State, which was also, yes, a gas. I guess that's a trite set phrase, "it was a gas." A cliche. But cliched from what? Is that the kind of gas you put in a car, or the kind you huff, or the kind you blow out your woofer? The answer to that question sort of makes a difference as to whether I keep using that particular former metaphor. Could someone get back to me on that?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A being who knows the trick of combining complete knowledge of the human condition with perfect compassion toward it. And: Barry Corbin. Steve Cropper. Madeleine Albright.

My Blog

What I Think I Learn from the Ocean

So here I am in Florida, on St. George Island, with Joel and Ruby, Mom and Dad, Mark and Liz and Sophie, and sometimes Aunt Barbara. If the family is the list of vowels, in Florida Aunt Barbara is "Y"...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:30:00 GMT

Barack Obama for President

I should be honest and say I still like and have some respect for John McCain, despite all the crap he's done to try to get elected, and I think he would make a decent-to-good president.&nbs...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:05:00 GMT

Politics at the Table

Tonight at dinner my boy Joel revealed his resentment of Republicans in front of my father, who is a Republican. I think Joel said something like, "I'm so sick of Republicans." Dad was going to l...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:05:00 GMT

The Highway Stripe Movie and the Pressure of Places

One of the many strange things I daydreamed about as a boy had to do with the road.   Mom and Dad and Mark and I logged a good many miles taking family vacations, or running down to Mother Ruby'...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:14:00 GMT

I begin this

not knowing whether I have anything to say, but knowing it's time to write. The kids are getting ready for their day, which is to include fireworks and cousins in Spokane. I've got a little catch just...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:17:00 GMT

This Post Is Now Entitled

This blog post finds me having experienced many changes, none of which I feel inclined to blog about. I do need to say this to the people I love who check here to see if I've written anything. Everyth...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:39:00 GMT

Blog Link Hogstrunk

Here's a link to my blog. It's also the blog of my friends, bl and Elmer Scheid. bl posts fairly frequently. Elmer's more of a grey eminence. I'll post to it again when I get a brain. Thank you.
Posted by on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:03:00 GMT