My kids wanna see the monkey

Finally, Speed Racer is coming today. Which sounds like a Trixie joke, but I just mean that the movie finally opens. I’m about as excited to see Speed as I was to see Iron Man, but I was a huge Speed Racer watching kid way back when (before the internets, if you can imagine. Yes, […]

Flowered dresses

From Slaid Cleaves, cool tune: Sometimes I think about my daddy and his old spice grin, Cleaned pressed shirts, and a farmers tan She never asked him questions So he never told her lies but I heard my mama cry some And I was sitting in the hallway on the night he left huggin my […]

Childish things

This was in my email today, and it (naturally) strikes a chord. I say naturally because, well, it’s Calvin: Read on to see why this is timely…