I have become so used to getting immediate responses. I bet you have too.So when I looked at this picture in the moments after I took it earlier this week using “Instagram” and my iPhone, I wanted an instant answer to the shaded column dissecting the middle of the photograph, yet instead the mystery just […]
The Jargon Society | Musings …about Barbecue by the Late Jonathan Williams
The Jargon Society | Musings. …THE TRUE, ONLY, AND MOST SECRETENTRANCE TO HOG HEAVEN by Jonathan WilliamsI have only eaten at Ridgewood once and it was many years ago. If you have been reading this blog over the last year, you know I have a love for Carolina Barbecue. If you like the stuff, click the […]
Travel Post from Norris Lake: The Walk Outside Our Door
I wrote a blog in December entitled, “Travel Post From Atlanta: The Walk Outside Our Door,” in which I argued one doesn’t have to get far away to get away. We have been spending the last week on Norris Lake in East Tennessee. This is a place that is as familiar to us as our […]
Found: The Right Guitar Shop in Atlanta
I love guitar shops, and over the years I have dropped significant cash in them. Guitar Works in Richmond, VA, Barr’s Fiddle Shop in Galax, VA, McIntyre Guitars in Charlotte, NC (now defunct, I think, as Doug McIntyre it seems is focused purely on selling acoustic instrument pickups these days), The Bluegrass Center (defunct now as […]
The Never Ending and Remarkably Slow Barbecue Tour
Eating barbecue during a heat wave makes sense. Pulled pork sandwiches somehow taste even better when you are already sweaty, perhaps even smelling of wood smoke. This apparently means we should eat a lot of barbecue over the course of the extended forecast (in brief…hot, followed by hotter, followed by Christmas). So the timing was […]
A Brave Question: “Am I Worth Dying For?”
Dear Lord Lest I continue My complacent way Help me to remember Somehow out there A man died for me today. As long as there be war Then I must Ask and answer Am I worth dying for? –Prayer Eleanor Roosevelt kept in her wallet during WWII My daughter dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt at […]