Author: Kylene

For the last three weeks or so, the alarm system in our house, which we don’t actually have activated (Shh!  Don’t tell the criminals!) has been beeping.  Every morning at 5:32 it beeps loud enough that we can hear it in the bedroom upstairs (the box is located just inside the door downstairs).  It beeps… Continue reading

Still no serious threat from Hanna.  Projections are putting landfall in South Carolina, but further up the coast from us.  I expect that the path of the storm will shift even more and all we’ll have to deal with is a really wet weekend.  So far, we’re enjoying sunny, mid-80 degree weather.  It’s lovely. I… Continue reading

Well, the hottest topic for today is Hurricane Hanna.  She sounds like a character from an old-time Disney cartoon and I keep humming “A Whale of a Tale” under my breath.  Anyway, right now she’s hanging out around Haiti and not causing any problems way up here.  In fact, we’re having fantastic weather today.  Not… Continue reading

10 years agoAugust of 1998—I graduated from high school in the spring and worked during the summer, probably stripping beds at the resort for the Siepierski’s, babysitting, helping tend ginseng beds, or working at Video Hut—some combination of those options.  Around this time of the year, my family packed up all my stuff and drove… Continue reading

I like writing from home.  I like writing from home whole heaps more than I like writing at work.  I feel more creative there, even if it doesn’t show through what I’m writing.  I dunno.  It’s just . . . nicer. But sometimes writing is like an itch and I have to scratch it.  And… Continue reading