"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Mar 18th, 2025
One of the many things my Mom taught me was how to handle myself around men I didn’t trust. Which is to say, stay on your toes, keep your eyes open, keep your elbows up, and be ready to raise hell. When I was in high school, I came to grief by a boy in […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cars as a hobby, Family, nostalgia on Mar 4th, 2025
When I was around ten or eleven years old, my Dad got a call from a man who was restoring his 1962 Volkswagen and needed to have his engine rebuilt. He wanted to keep it stock, rebuilding the original 40-horse, if at all possible. “Not a problem,” my Dad told the man. “We’ll get the […]