What happens when you’re late to the boat.

May 24, 2010 by The Clever Kris · 1 Comment
Filed under: Deep South, Everyday, life 

Most of the time, I have the best of intentions. A week into the oil devastation that now ravages our gulf coast, and I’d already registered my name with the Audubon Society as an eager volunteer, ready to give up his summer for the clean-up cause. That oil devastation, as you may know, is now going on Day 34, I believe.   Or over a month, whichever sounds worse. This past weekend, though, I found myself in Biloxi, smack dab in the middle of Mississippi’s manmade coastline…and I didn’t clean up a thing. I didn’t have to. Now, it wasn’t entirely a planned trip. We’d...

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I’d like to introduce you to the word “hingent.”

September 29, 2009 by The Clever Kris · 4 Comments
Filed under: End of the World, Everyday, food, language, life, writing 
One of these men is not like the other. (He stole a diamond).

I have a confession to make. I wasn't all that "sold on" what I wrote yesterday. It didn't, how shall I say this without hurting my feelings, make a whole lot of sense. I've spent most of this morning trying to be OK with it because every day can't be a diamond. Indeed, most of them are just broken pieces of coal. But, but...that, that's OK. The whole point of starting a blog was to give myself room to make writer's mistakes with the option of accountability, depending on how many read the blog and felt the need to comment. I'd fallen into a rut, as a playwright and...

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The Times they are a-strangin'.

May 8, 2009 by The Clever Kris · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Everyday 
Caveat Emptor.

I took a road trip yesterday with Kim and Amanda.  We drove down to the beach, an annual treat, and one of the few things I look forward to the whole year long. Sometimes, two of the few things I look forward to the whole year long, if I can manage to get away again. I'd never taken a trip with Kim and Amanda, at the same time; I've certainly spent time with them separately, and had a wonderful time with each, but I wasn't sure the casserole would take, so to speak, when all the ingredients were added.  We all have...

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