Jeffrey K. Walker's Blog, page 20
April 1, 2018
We Do Need Another Hero. And Another.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate this highest of Christian holy days. And Happy Passover. And a Happy Maybe-Crappy-Winter-Weather-Is-Finally-Over Day to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. (Except for New Englanders. Because that would be cruel.) As any of you Six or Seven Who Read My Blog with regularity already know, I was raised a proper […]
March 25, 2018
Enough is Enough
This’ll be a short post with as many pictures as Kay-Kay wants to jam into it. It’s been a very busy weekend and there are two reasons for this. First, claiming Alumni Parent Bragging Rights, Kay-Kay and I have been swept up in The Rambler Scramble in this year’s March Madness. That’s correct. Scooter, our […]
March 18, 2018
Flying in the BUFF (Part Two)
I wrote a post back in August spilling secrets about my days flying the venerable (meaning friggin’ old) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. This name is habitually shortened to the BUFF. This is an acronym for Big Ugly Fat Fuc… errr, Flying Machine. Rereading that post, I realize I never actually got off the ground, getting bogged […]
March 11, 2018
Breaking Twitter
I found myself sinking into deep thoughts about Chaos Theory and The Butterfly Effect this week. You’d think I was pondering the nature of the universe or Something Truly Highbrow, but you would be wrong. I’m talking about Twitter. Because I broke it. Maybe not broke exactly. I guess the better term is I went […]
March 4, 2018
What the Heck Happened to Tomatoes?
Before the age of 30, I really was not a fan of tomatoes. I love them now, truly love them, but I’m a Very Selective Tomato-Eater. My problem with them in my growing-up years was they always seemed so… unfinished. That and we only ever had store-bought tomatoes from the National Tea supermarket across the […]
What The Heck Happened to Tomatoes?
Before the age of 30, I really was not a fan of tomatoes. I love them now, truly love them, but I’m a Very Selective Tomato-Eater. My problem with them in my growing-up years was they always seemed so… unfinished. That and we only ever had store-bought tomatoes from the National Tea supermarket across the […]
February 25, 2018
Poets Rock and I’m Jealous
It’s been a big writerly week for me and honestly, I’m too emotionally and literarily exhausted to Think Many Deep Thoughts. Here’s what happened. Last Tuesday, I found out I’d been picked to read a selection from my latest book Truly Are the Free, for “The Writer’s Block,” a monthly spoken-word show put on by […]
February 18, 2018
Postmodern T-Shirts
During my travels over the last decade or so, I’ve noticed something peculiar. It has to do with… t-shirts with English words on them. Not exactly an earth-shaking issue of vast geo-political significance, I know. But as with so many other quotidian matters, this makes me go “Hmmm.” And it will come as no surprise […]
February 11, 2018
My Costa Rican Odyssey
We’re back from our 12-day trek to Costa Rica. Kay-Kay says I need to write more personal blogs—something about either revealing more of my inner self or not being a crashing bore—so here are my Very Personal Thoughts on Costa Rica. I’ve traveled to other Central American countries before, but Costa Rica is nothing like […]
February 4, 2018
Our Great National Shame
[I’m still on vacation in the jungles of Costa Rica with Kay-Kay, so I’m republishing an early blog post from October that seems appropriate for the beginning of African American History Month. We’ll be back at it next week, hopefully with some pictures and stories from Costa Rica. Kay-Kay has scheduled us for jungle zip […]
