a little icy this morning
It was a little icy in Richmond this morning.

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what happens when a white cat takes a dirt bath
Our white cat took a dirt bath today–you can see the result.
Oh, but look at those eyes!
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My story: “A Healing Place,” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
April 1, 2010 - 7:24 am
Tags: dead mule, healing place, published, short story, southern, Virginia, writing
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My story, “A Healing Place,” is out in the April 2010 edition of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
You didn’t know I was Southern? Well, I guess my Southern Legitimacy Statement proves it.
By the way, the April edition of The Dead Mule has one of their biggest fiction issues ever, along with their poetry, [...]
Review: In the Land of Believers, by Gina Welch
March 30, 2010 - 8:38 pm
Tags: belief, Book, gina welch, lynchburg, review, spirituality, Virginia
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The recent health care “debate” had both the blue team AND the red team stooping to lows of hysteria and vitriol, getting Americans riled up rather than taking advantage of an opportunity for understanding and education. So it is refreshing to see someone take the latter path, rather than the former, for a change.
Gina [...]
a possum who thinks he is a cat
February 2, 2010 - 10:40 am
Tags: cat, eating, food, possum, video, Virginia
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Something made me suspicious, so I looked outside to see what the cats were up to, and found that the critter eating all the cat food was not a cat!
Here’s a short video of what I saw on the porch:
Ya, that’s a hungry possum. What I think is funny is the audio of him eating [...]
12 Great Gift Ideas
December 3, 2009 - 8:04 pm
Tags: amazon, apple, Book, book reader, camera, career, clothes, cooking, cross training, dragondoor, education, Fitness, gift, gift card, gymboss, kendall, kettlebell, kindle, knives, laptop, Living, reading, running, scanning, sharpening, Technology, vibram, Vibram fivefingers, video, Virginia, wool
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If you want a larger size, choose the Kindle DX ( my review ). tie or scarf from Mountain and Sackett Established in 1957, these folks offer some of the best values in handmade ties and scarves. … TRX kettlebell + enter the kettlebell flip video recorder vibram five fingers shopcraft for the soul Apple Macbook Pro Amazon Gift Card If you can’t find anything from the above list of items, then you could always just buy an Amazon Gift Card, and let the recipient buy whatever it is they want.
Richmond Noir anthology of great noir fiction
October 13, 2009 - 8:58 pm
Tags: akashic book, anthology, fiction, noir, richmond
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Be sure to check out the forthcoming Richmond Noir, an anthology of original noir stories by Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan Saunders, Anne Soffee, Clint McCowan, Conrad Persons, Clay Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers.
With a Foreward by Tom Robbins.
Edited by Andrew [...]
Virginia Wine and Garlic Festival at Rebec Vineyard and Winery
October 12, 2009 - 6:28 am
Tags: festival, garlic, rebec, vineyard, Virginia, winery
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Rebec Vineyard and Winery, in Amherst, Virginia, recently hosted the 18th Annual Virginia Wine and Garlic Festival. Six area wineries, lots of garlicky foods, music, and entertainers made this a really fun time for all.
The short video below captures a few of the sights and sounds there, in case you missed it or are curious.
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Another tragedy at Virginia Tech
January 22, 2009 - 6:50 pm
Tags: murder, Virginia, virginia tech
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Another murder.
From the Richmond Times Dispatch:
BLACKSBURG — Haiyang Zhu and Xin Yang, two Chinese graduate students at Virginia Tech, were seemingly doing nothing more than enjoying a quiet conversation and a cup of coffee together at a campus cafe when, abruptly, Zhu pulled a knife.
In the following seconds, the school’s police chief said today, Zhu [...]
Raccoon meets cat
November 6, 2008 - 11:43 pm
Tags: cat, raccoon, richmond, window
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One night a raccoon came to our window in Richmond, VA. Note the cat ears at the bottom of the pic and the raccoon hand against the window – it was quite the stare-down – neither party knew what to make of the other.
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A Monticello Wine Tasting
October 4, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Tags: Charlottesville, monticello, thomas jefferson, Virginia, wine, wine tasting
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As noted in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 27, Thomas Jefferson writes, after touring through the vineyards of France:
There are four crops of them more famous than all the rest. These are Chateau-Margau, Tour de Segur, Haut-brion, and de la Fite. They cost 3 livres bottle, old: But are so engaged before hand that [...]



