by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 2, 2020 | Blog |
Today’s topic is… John Tyler’s House. Or alternatively, memory and history. ‘Cause they’re all kind of jumbled together for me right now. I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Cradle of Presidents, the Old Dominion, Britain’s first colony (if you don’t count... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 26, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus Journal |
COVID has forced us all to go very virtual. Over the last four months, “virtual” may have overtaken “very” as the most common adjective in the English language. Everything has picked up a Virtual Variation—virtual lectures, virtual happy hours, virtual work meetings,... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 19, 2020 | Blog |
My Big Sister thinks I should be ashamed to admit this, but I love Ernest Hemingway. Sissy reminded me just the other day that Papa H was a “Misogynist Racist Anti-Semite Hyper-Machismo D-bag” (with an actual capital ‘D’). All true, regrettably enough. I... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 12, 2020 | Blog |
Feels a little strange, doesn’t it? Statues coming down all over America. Remember how we cheered when Iraqis pulled down every Saddam? Or a decade earlier how we huzzahed with democratic vindication as Stalin and Brezhnev and Lenin were consigned to the statuary... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 5, 2020 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
It’s hot. And humid. I mean feels-like-walking-through-boiled-molasses hot summer. Not just here in Virginia, according to Weather Underground, but the entirety of the Perspired States of America. It’s just turned July. Yikes. Let us give thanks to all deities and... 
