Bean Bods and Pixie Sticks

I saw Aunt Mary on Sunday. I sat on the edge of her bed in the nursing home, next to the wheelchair she has to ride in, despite the fact she can hold up her own feet when someone is pushing it. Half the time, her head was bent down against her chest, her eyes…

Charlie Daniels is in a new Geico commercial. Playing the fiddle. Awesome. No sighting of the Geico gecko though. This is a major fail. They totally could have done a “Devil Went Down to Georgia” thing. Classic, it would have been.

Outside the house that I grew up in, there was this massive tree, one of the biggest I’ve ever seen in a residential neighborhood. The roots of that tree were so strong that they were intrusive. The two squares of sidewalk nearest the tree’s base sat at a seventy-degree angle against the trunk, and the…