500 Great Things About Life
Blog URL http://www.500greatthings.blogspot.com
Located Madison, Mississippi USA
Tags fiction, movies, drinks, dogs, writing, literature, books, short stories, friends
A compilation of my ideas about the things I think are great in life: dogs, literature, movies, books, food, friends, dying well, and others that occur to me.
Latest Blog Posts
- Number 12: Chick Flicks on Aug 31, 2009 in Julie and Julia Roman HOliday chick flicks
Okay guys, this one may not be for you. But then again, there may be a point worth remembering. Tonight was date night, and my wife picked "Julie and Julia" as the movie. We arrived early to what she admitted was a chick flick (sorry if that offends...
- Number 11: Watching Children Catch Fish on Jun 16, 2009
Yesterday, my friend Charles Woods (Bubba to me) and I told young Matthew (age 9) we would help him catch his first red snapper. We're on Dauphin Island for a week, and Matthew's parents said he could go with us if we really meant it. So we loaded up...
- Number 10: Movies on Mar 2, 2008
Okay, I admit it. I've wasted enough hours watching reruns of movies to have completed the next great American novel, or two or three. Or at least reached all 500 entries in this blog. And not necessarily good movies. Stuff like Die Hard, Mission Imp...
- Number 9: Favorite books that become old friends on Feb 9, 2008 in transcendentalists tom sawyer thoreau richard hugo galway kinnell
It's Saturday morning. After two cups of coffee and an English muffin while reading the The Clarion-Ledger, I decided to take a few minutes to write. The sun has already risen to the treetops and the reservoir looks white-hot with the sun reflecting...
- Number 8: Beautiful Endings on Jan 17, 2008 in labrador retrievers labs dogs
My old lab died in my arms last night. While it left me and my wife heartsick and sobbing, it was a beautiful ending. Boaz would have been 14 in March, so she had a full and wonderful life. That's her retrieving the duck in the photo.This is her stor...
- Number 7: Cutting your own firewood on Jan 13, 2008 in chain saws firewood
This weekend I spent a few hours Saturday morning and into the afternoon cutting and splitting firewood. We love fires in the home, and have had a couple of dozen fires this year already. Behind my house several trees had been cleared when the land w...
- Number 6: The Mississippi Delta on Jan 6, 2008
This afternoon I arrived home after a weekend in the Delta. There is no place comparable on earth, in ways that are good, bad, mysterious, mystical, and many other adjectives that I'll work into this blog at some point. For those who don't know, the...
