by Jeffrey K. Walker | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
I come from a long line of local politicians. Great Uncle Moe was the Treasurer of LaValliere County for a couple of decades, from which he managed to keep a wife and two mistresses in comfort. His big brother, Great Uncle Louie, was mayor of the county seat of Ojibwa...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
While Kay-Kay and I were in California last week visiting the grandkids, I drove by my four-year-old grandson Goober’s putative future high school. The football team was out on the field for a partial-pads scrimmage. And there is no sure sign of the school year...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | May 26, 2019 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
[You can read more stories from Skeeterville HERE.] I just spent a week back in my old hometown of Skeeterville. Maybe it’s just me, but either everybody there has gotten much cooler or I’m much less of a jerk than I was in high school. I’m open to either possibility....
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jan 13, 2019 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
I’ve used a favorite Shakespeare quote in business correspondence several times over the years. It’s from the first act of Julius Caesar: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
Full confession. Kay-Kay and I live in a lovely house on a lake that’s kinda-sorta part of the James River. (It’s a long hydrological story, one of which I am incapable of rendering amusing in any way.) And by “on a lake,” I mean “almost in a lake.” Although the...
