Tom King's Blog, page 27
January 9, 2013
Comfort Food - The Cornerstone of Civilization
(c) 2013 by Tom King
Mom's garlic and cream cheese
mashed potatoes - mmmemories!
You forget just how important it is to cook to suit yourself until you share a kitchen and have to cook to suit the tastes of another. Since my wife and I moved to the carriage house, we've been enjoying a change in our diet that happened without us really thinking about it. When you shop for your own groceries and cook for yourself, you soon revert to your old habits and old favorite dishes...
Mom's garlic and cream cheese
mashed potatoes - mmmemories!
You forget just how important it is to cook to suit yourself until you share a kitchen and have to cook to suit the tastes of another. Since my wife and I moved to the carriage house, we've been enjoying a change in our diet that happened without us really thinking about it. When you shop for your own groceries and cook for yourself, you soon revert to your old habits and old favorite dishes...
December 23, 2012
Hang on to Your Wallet: The Hazards of Payphone Credit Card Use
© 2012 by Tom King
Let me say up front that I’m not an investigative reporter. I don’t have access to the kinds of vast information resources available to credentialed reporters. I am, however, a mule-headed freelance writer and the poor schmo who made the mistake of sticking his credit card in the payphone at the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal.
I usually don’t use the pay phone. Like most of us now, I have a cellular phone that works pretty much anywhere except, of course, when...
Let me say up front that I’m not an investigative reporter. I don’t have access to the kinds of vast information resources available to credentialed reporters. I am, however, a mule-headed freelance writer and the poor schmo who made the mistake of sticking his credit card in the payphone at the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal.
I usually don’t use the pay phone. Like most of us now, I have a cellular phone that works pretty much anywhere except, of course, when...
December 19, 2012
Can an Agnostic Call Himself a Christian?
I read a piece today by a man who says he isn't sure he believes in God, but he likes Christians so much he calls himself one.
I've been where he is. My walk with God began with a weird prayer,
The signs are there, though the journey
getting to them can be downright uncomfortable.
"God, I don't know if I even believe you exist, but you make all kinds of sense. So I'm in! I'll read the books, go to church and do all that stuff so I can find out who they say you are, but at som...
I've been where he is. My walk with God began with a weird prayer,
The signs are there, though the journey
getting to them can be downright uncomfortable.
"God, I don't know if I even believe you exist, but you make all kinds of sense. So I'm in! I'll read the books, go to church and do all that stuff so I can find out who they say you are, but at som...
December 18, 2012
I Celebrate Christmas
I Celebrate Christmas.
My brother died the day after Christmas.
My son died after one of the best Christmas’s we’d ever had.
I’ve been poor at Christmas
Celebrated with few of the trimmings
I’ve been well off and enjoyed the fatness of the season.
I have seen great kindness.
I have seen appalling greed and selfishness.
I have given to others.
I have received when I could not give.
I Celebrate Christmas.
I am amazed at the tenacity of man.
He longs for peace on Earth....
December 12, 2012
Getting Settled In
We're in the Carriage House to the right.
Just a personal note this time. We're all moved in to the carriage house. It's a lovely writer's retreat. Nice folk in the big house. Wife's a teacher. Husband owns a music store. They're a couple of years older than us. Alan even offered to sell me a banjo at cost through his music store. That's cool. I may even be able to take him up on it soon if my writing business keeps picking up. Righ...
We're in the Carriage House to the right.
Just a personal note this time. We're all moved in to the carriage house. It's a lovely writer's retreat. Nice folk in the big house. Wife's a teacher. Husband owns a music store. They're a couple of years older than us. Alan even offered to sell me a banjo at cost through his music store. That's cool. I may even be able to take him up on it soon if my writing business keeps picking up. Righ...
November 17, 2012
Why the Secession Talk in Texas?
(c) 2012 by Tom King
There's been a lot of secession talk in Texas since the 2012 election last week. Of course, the chances that Texas will actually secede are slim to none, but so far more than 100,000 Texas voters have signed the petition for secession that's going around. I don't talk about secession much
In Texas we keep most of our liberals in Houston and Dallas. There are some scattered through the woods in East Texas, but they're pretty thin on the ground elsewhere. One of...
There's been a lot of secession talk in Texas since the 2012 election last week. Of course, the chances that Texas will actually secede are slim to none, but so far more than 100,000 Texas voters have signed the petition for secession that's going around. I don't talk about secession much
In Texas we keep most of our liberals in Houston and Dallas. There are some scattered through the woods in East Texas, but they're pretty thin on the ground elsewhere. One of...
October 26, 2012
I Ain't Afraid of No Grim Reaper
I plan to join a band after I'm dead...
I see a lot of introspective, end of life weblogs being written by my peers lately. It seems that as soon as the old peak becomes fully snow-capped, we wax nostalgic and start looking back at our legacy. Presidents and old people do that a lot.
Psychologist Erick Erickson says coming to terms with your life is the big deal psychological task of people nearing the end of their lives. You look back fondly at the good stuff you di...
October 19, 2012
Whiskers on Kittens - The Good Life in Lists
The woods in the morning - definitely on my list!
We’re all fascinated with lists. Pick up the TV remote and cruise through the cable channels. It’s the top ten this and the top 50 that from the top to the bottom of the channel listings. Even the inimitable Mary Poppins had a list of her favorite things.
If you were to sing about your favorite things just now, it’s not likely to include raindrops on roses or doorbells, though you might rather enjoy those things. You might mentio...
The woods in the morning - definitely on my list!
We’re all fascinated with lists. Pick up the TV remote and cruise through the cable channels. It’s the top ten this and the top 50 that from the top to the bottom of the channel listings. Even the inimitable Mary Poppins had a list of her favorite things.
If you were to sing about your favorite things just now, it’s not likely to include raindrops on roses or doorbells, though you might rather enjoy those things. You might mentio...
