akentuckybard
Apr 8, 20212 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
Yesterday our neighborhood lost a towering giant, a stately old tree that provided a wonderful silhouette at sunset. It happened in a...
akentuckybard
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
I am reading Crime and Punishment. It’s a good chance to devour a classic, but it’s also sort of a self-imposed assignment. You see, just...
akentuckybard
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
They appear every year in our backyard. We never planted them. We inherited them. Crocuses. When we first saw them, all the crocuses were...
akentuckybard
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
Every now and then, most of us need a reminder of what truly matters in the world. Sometimes it’s not so much about forgetting what...
akentuckybard
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
By most accounts this has been a fairly mild winter season. That changed Wednesday, when ice draped our landscape like a tablecloth...
akentuckybard
Jan 28, 20212 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
January is coming to an end, and February looms on the horizon. This means different things to different people. For some, it means the...
akentuckybard
Jan 15, 20212 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
Last weekend my oldest sister found a game piece that had been lost at our family home for more than 40 years. The game piece is a thin...
akentuckybard
Dec 24, 20202 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
The temptation to sum up this year in a way that seems deserving — to lambaste every contributing element that made it a struggle for so...
akentuckybard
Nov 13, 20202 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
Some things can evoke a spirit of another era so strongly they transform and transport you. Such was the case recently in our home. But...
akentuckybard
Oct 22, 20202 min read
Digressions: My Life in 500 Words or Less
My coffee has been demoted. Folgers Gourmet Supreme is no longer classified as Dark. Now it is classified as Med-Dark. You can see it on...
