Here is my latest addiction: Monk-e-MailTry it. You won’t be sorry. I sent Holly at Bonfires a little love note from her publisher. I send Alexandrialeigh a little apology from our ass hat former employer. (MWAHAHAHA!) Then I sent A.S. an angry turd note from his thesis instructor: “A.S., this is Doug. This s**t does […]

Next Wednesday, A.S. has his oral defense at Clemson, which means he will be technically finished with graduate school (knock on wood fast). His manuscript is due a month from then, but that is apparently a mere technicality, evidenced by the flight that leaves a millisecond after he gets his presentation pass/fail on Wednesday morning…to […]

Since November I’ve had this really annoying pansy-assed little niggling cough. It’s not deep and chesty and phlegmy…it’s more of a “ahem….hem, hem” type weeny variety. Rather than inciting sympathetic looks from coworkers and fiancés, it makes people say, “Jesus! When they hell are you going to get rid of that cough?!”
So I went BACK […]

At long last, here is a photo of the Devil Dog herself, sitting next to her mother at Edisto Beach weekend before last. A.S. took the picture, and I taunted them both with the red squeaky ball, which is why they look so wide-eyed and zombified. Aren’t they cute little brown dogs though?

Man, I feel TERRIBLE today. It’s a mixture of horrible allergies and too much wine last night. Margaret (the friend whose father died) and I drank a few beers and moved a giant log into the middle of a sluiceway in order to build up a big bank and get more water to some pitcher […]

The Dog and I are off to Savannah tomorrow to see Miss Nobody, whom I have missed tremendously since she moved down the river. The plan is to paint her house, but I suspect there will be some significant imbibing as well. I can’t wait!
Although I am swearing here, in front of God and […]

God, what a craptacular day. First, a good friend called me and said her husband asked her for a divorce this morning. I feel so bad, since I was all, “HEY! Happy Kitten Bicycle Time!” when she called, being that I thought she wanted to talk about the wedding shower she had offered to throw. […]

No, it’s not hemorrhoids (funny, I’m typing this in Word and it just asked me if I meant hammerheads…well, perhaps. I have heard they are really quite painful). T and Jeff and I ran The Bridge this morning, and it proved just how far I have fallen from marathon shape. Panting like obscene phone callers, […]

Yes, you knew it would be so…Beulah was the smartest in her class at Doggie School. We’ve been practicing all her commands, like heel, sit, stay, down, and come, for the last week. And all the other dogs were running amock and leaping all over their owners and growling at one another. Beulah kept her […]

I have a small confession to make. I haven’t touched any of the goat cheese I bought on Sunday. I’m SCARED to! It’s almost like when you go to someone’s house who has about 11 cats and cur dogs with mange, and they offer you a nice slice of pound cake, but you just KNOW […]