So, that one time, I committed a crime, OK?

May 21, 2010 by The Clever Kris · 2 Comments
Filed under: Deep South, family, food, humor 

Let me tell you why I like Lowe’s.  They’re not afraid to bend the rules, for you. I can’t say how far they would bend them—sharing trade secrets, “extras” given rather than purchased—but I will tell you this: they’ll go the distance to help you get mint. Every year around this time, this humid, wet, hot time, I get the notion that, once again, who I really am has nothing to do with theatre, writing, or teaching. No, who I am, in fact, is a Farmer. I drag out the tools from the side of the house and cultivate the small...

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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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