I can't help but think that this could be America's last Independance Day. I think that's the sort of pronouncement that Bret Easton Ellis would refer to as "clutching pearls." And yet. And it was hot. Our heat advisory continued. Sunny and cloudy by turns, the high 97F, with a heat index of 106F. Near sunset, as all of Birmingham readied for the ( Read more... )

Yeah, so...a little cooler today, and a faint crispness in the air that I take as the first signs of autumn. And Kathryn saw a little white butterfly. My Grandpa Ramey used to say, when you see little white butterflies going down the road, autumn's coming." Our high today was 87F, with a heat index of 89F ( Read more... )

Mostly overcast today. Our high was 89F, with a heat index of 96F ( Read more... )

Rainy all day. Again. Well, there were a few precious minutes of sunlight. The high was 73˚F.

This may be the year Alabama has no winter.

A friend just told me that a new survey has shown that Alabama has the most conservative legislature in the country, while Rhode Island has the third least conservative. None of that comes as a surprise. But it ( Read more... )

I'm having a very, very bad day. Lately, most of my days have only been very bad ( Read more... )

Sunny all day. We made it to 85˚F. Which is the current temperature ( Read more... )

Here I am again ( Read more... )

Today, with the heat index, we reached 100˚F. The light had that quality, as if the world might, at any moment, burst into flame. I mostly hid in my dark office. Now it's only 78˚F, 80˚F with the heat index.

I began reading The Seven Pillars of WisdomTonight there are cicadas in the cool air after the heat ( Read more... )

Muggy and warm tonight. Mostly cloudy today, with some sun, then some rain. Currently, it's 78˚F, with the heat index at 80˚F.

And today is mine and Kathryn's seventeenth anniversary.

I felt quite a bit better today.

I did 1,207 words on "Untitled 44." Then I did typed in line edits on the manuscript of a book I'm doing with Borderlands Press, A ( Read more... )

On this day in 1911, my maternal grandfather, Gordon Jasper Monroe Ramey, was born. He'd have been 107 today ( Read more... )