• Soggy Bottom Boys / Alison Krauss and Union Station

    Here is how it happened. My youngest son called. “Dad,” he said “I’ve locked the keys in the car again.” So I went to wake my middle son up to go to the rescue. I don’t drive right now due to the meds I am taking. While middle son and I were smoking out in the…


  • More Great Bluegrass from Patty Lovelace and OCMS

    In a previous post, I wrote about sharing my passion for bluegrass music on this blog. Sometimes, like today, I might just share some great songs I am listening to, and my thoughts about them. To read a great article about bluegrass music, click the picture with your mouse.     Patty Lovelace is a…


  • On Top

    Two submissions for the weekly photo challenge On Top. First up is a photo I call “Top Down.” I took this inside the lighthouse at Hunting Island State Park. I was on the top level looking down at the spiral staircase I just finished climbing.     The next photo I took in my back…


  • “Rank Strangers” by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

    For as long as I can remember, I have listened to and loved bluegrass and gospel music. I’m sure a lot of  my love for this music, especially gospel, is due to my mother. Although she didn’t have an angel’s voice, she sounded like an angel to me as she sang gospel songs while she worked around…


  • Java Fueled Journaling – 4

    04/16/14, 03:08:00 AM Columbia, South Carolina, USA, North America, Earth, The Milky Way, The Solar System Dear Java Fueled Journal, Guess what? Yep, you oh so smart dude, you! You now have a new home in this crazy world wide weboblogosphere. I decided – on my own mind you – that you no longer need…


  • Java Fueled Journaling – 3

    13 April 2014, 10:10:30 AM Dear Java Fueled Journal, Go figure. Another night of java-fuel for my nicotine enriched, oxygen deprived, gamma-raydiated brain. Its crazy! It’s wild! A circus and a freaking freak show! It’s like…well…like…gosh, you know what it’s like. It’s like all my brain cells are at war with each other and nobody…