Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2010
Roscuro sat on the dungeon floor. The whiskers on the left side of his face were gone. His heart was beating hard, and though the light from the match had disappeared, it danced, still, before the rat’s eyes, even when he closed them.
“Light,” he said aloug. And then he whispered the word again. ”Light.”
From that [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2010
I’m not going to tell anyone I’ve blogged again- don’t want to get expectations up. Just wanted to share this marvelous scene. Get a bottle of wine, a darlin’ and watch this marvelous movie, Il Postino:
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2010
NOTE: READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE COMMENTS. My friend Andrea is a great nurse and has some really important notes if you’re thinking of using Sudafed.
So, I’m at the beginning of some gunk or another this morning. Usually the swollen gland on the right side of my neck is a good indicator that something’s [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2010
Is this not one of the happiest things you’ve seen? This is our friend Dean Coffman, from Bellingham, WA. Dean is a trucker and a photographer. I sometimes suspect that he’s a trucker so that he can take in the beauty of the country and think, because he has the soul of [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2010
My mom gave me a book called Recipes from the Old Mill for Christmas. I’ve been looking for a good whole grain bread recipe, and this is full of them. I just sat down while the porridge simmered to have a look at it, and ran across this sweet introductory paragraph to pretzel making:
“Pretzel comes [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2009
Good morning, friends. It’s chilly, a fingerless glove kind of morning. Keeps your hands warm, good for typing.
I woke up an hour before the sun. Aaaand there goes my train of thought. A very nice man named Red just came over to tell me that he and his girlfriend think that I [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2009
Good morning, friends. I’m here in Marietta, GA, where we’re having Thanksgiving with the Hutson family. It was so good- family, friends- and it’s the first time we’ve all been together since Kenny’s dad died last month, so there was joy and sorrow mingled all together, as it should be.
It’s the morning after, and I’m [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2009
Poor, poor neglected blog. Suffering like the red-headed stepsister of Coal Train Railroad. Blog, I will treat you like I ought soon- we gotta get this train up and running. The kids need the jazz, you know? http://www.coaltrainrailroad
So dear blog, I’m going to let you do your little part to [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2009
We’re amazed at the response to Coal Train thus far- we can pay for our manufacturing on two days of sales- and all by word of mouth! We can’t wait for you all to have it. As we’ve been saying, we want to see the whole world boogying to the Belly Button Song.
And, our favorite [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009
After many years of dreaming, writing, tweaking, recording and planning, we are releasing Coal Train Railroad on Thanksgiving Day. It’s great jazz for kids! Coal Train is a collaboration between Katy Bowser and Chris Donohue. It’s music about kid stuff- juice, snuggling, naps, getting along, sharing- with music that we can all enjoy together. We [...]
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