by T.L. Haddix | Sep 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
(If you stick around or simply want to skip to the end, there’s a lasagna recipe.) In all the chaos and confusion that’s been life this past week, I forgot to post an update on the stove. The heat pump install was finished on Monday, and so was the stove install....
by T.L. Haddix | Sep 22, 2018 | Books and Reading
I’ll keep this one short and sweet. It’s gloomy and wet here, really feeling like fall and winter in light and atmosphere. I don’t think I’m ready for this seasonal shift, but at the same time, I kind of welcome the change. Winters here so far haven’t been bad, and...
by T.L. Haddix | Sep 21, 2018 | Getting Healthy, Writing Stuff
Remember that “suspicious finding” on the CT report I mentioned that we were chasing a couple of weeks ago? The one we thought was resolved? Well… As it turns out, that situation isn’t as resolved as one might hope. A couple of days ago, I had a blood pressure spike....
by T.L. Haddix | Sep 20, 2018 | Slice of Life
Sometimes, it’s better not to speak if you don’t have nice things to say. Now, this is a principle I’ve always heard, only it was put “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” There’s a subtle but important difference there, I think. It...
by T.L. Haddix | Sep 18, 2018 | Appalachia, Slice of Life
There’s an old dairy bar within sight of the place I grew up. It’s down the highway a little ways, across a bridge and the railroad tracks. The bridge runs across Carr Creek, which used to be known as Carr’s Fork when I was growing up. If you stand on the bridge and...
