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  • What would you change about modern society? Dreaming of what I could change about what I once thought of as “modern society” floods my mind with questions and memories. What would I change, and would the changes even help or change anything? I thought the years I’d spent in this world watching, voting, trying to…

  • What do you listen to while you work? When I’m at my job working there are layers of sounds. I hear the machines as their mechanical functions repeat and go on. I listen to the voices of people as they order, listen to their banter as they wait and we share conversations, and listen to…

  • What’s your go-to comfort food? Comfort food, a universal thing…  We all have an affinity for the delicacies that relate to our heritage as well as what our family favors. When restaurants offer up ” comfort food” specials, they usually include regional dishes that Mama cooked. In the same respect, our go-to personal comfort foods…

  • What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why? I grew up in a time when my mama had afternoon Bridge parties, my grandparents played canasta, and solitaire was something I did as a kid to pass time along with war, spades, and 52-card pick-up when we were silly. Cards are something I have played…

  • What foods would you like to make? If I could make any kind of food excellently it would be Asian inspired food and sushi. I fell in love with, after being a nose-up kind of defiant, with sushi. If I lived near a sushi place, or even a Sam’s Club sushi chef, I would eat…

  • Which activities make you lose track of time? Time, Benjamin Franklin said, is the stuff life is made out of… While that is a fact, I must say the squandering of it is something we all do from time to time. This quote was written on a sign at Twelve Oaks Plantation in Gone With…

  • Sometimes I wonder how I ever got this old, I mean in my mind I don’t feel old. Mama did tell me that is what would happen. She was right… Sometimes I wonder what happens next. It’s always something it seems. That is a certainty in life, or one I seem to be finding in…

  • What bothers you and why? This question could not have come at a more opportune time. Today I have sat and read my morning news, tried to get help from the county road department, and surveillance the mess of last night’s storm that occurred while I was at work… so here it goes. The ignorance…

  • Are you seeking security or adventure? Are you seeking security or adventure? Why does there have to be a choice? I suppose with the state of the world the choices are becoming fraught with uncertainty and ability… can I afford to be adventurous, is it possible to attain both? I had thought until recently that…

  • If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite? If I could host a dinner with anyone, just anyone I know would come I believe I would invite people who would make for interesting dinner talk. People I admire for their integrity,  morals, humanity, and spiritual…