It’s the place you can sort things out in proper perspective away from the moment and the rush and pressure and figure out what it all means. It’s the place where you feel no prying eyes and your back relaxes and your exhale everything and all the on-guard paraphernalia and the masks fall off. It’s [...]
Not enough rum.
We’d stopped at a candy “factory” next to the World’s Fair Park in Knoxville, and along with a few other candies, we bough dad some rum balls. At his request. He likes them. After having to suffer through my driving of the ginormous Suburban on Cumberland Drive, on into a mini-parking lot at a Wendy’s [...]
Spare a drop more paint.
The day ended well, at the Ripley’s Aquarium in Gatlinburg. It looked for a short while, however, that we were headed down grumpy travelers street. Gatlinburg is like any other tourist trap: settled in some kind of space-inhibited mountain valley which allows for little space and parking and ends up with everything piled on top of [...]




