Tommy Tomlinson

Road trip: Milwaukee

We were in Wisconsin recently to take my wife’s parents up to see family — Alix’s dad grew up in Milwaukee, and they have lots of kin in and near

Thoughts on Writing

I’ve been teaching off and on for a while now about writing and storytelling. These days I’m teaching a class on magazine writing at Wake Forest. I’ve done workshops at

Henry Aaron, the greatest

Henry Aaron died today. Most of us fans knew him as Hank, but he preferred Henry, and so Henry it is. I guess we should take care of the baseball

The Friday Wrap, 5/9/14

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Because I write in lots of different places, it can be hard to keep up with my stuff, so I’m going

What It All Means: The SEC-Big 12 Bowl

Let’s begin with a short instructional video: That big lion, the one that zoomed to the head of the pack? That’s the SEC. The slightly slower lion is the Big

Good dog. Good, good dog.

Our dog Fred passed peacefully Thursday at about 7 p.m. Alix and I were there by his side, along with the amazing Dr. Mary Fluke, who had cared for him

Apologies

To the five or six people in the world who have this blog on an RSS feed: You probably saw a couple of weird posts today. There was a multimedia

After Mister Rogers

We went to see the Mister Rogers documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Everything we read and heard warned us to be ready to cry. One friend told me she

56 Up

There’s a famous British documentary series called the Up series, where director Michael Apted started following a group of 7-year-olds and has returned to them every seven years to see

Thirteen yeahs on the Drive-By Truckers

(at the Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 25, 2010) Amps to 11? Yeah. Open bottle of Jack on stage? Yeah. Guitar player with a cigarette dangling from his lips?

Nicknames from selected Charlotte Observer obituaries, May 2014

Pudgy Trip Kitty Smurfette MeeMaw Sho Big Dave Boompa The Deal-Making Man Nanny Grump Pod Punch Bip Peewee Herby 69 Bitty Shonna Pooh

Bill Murray, Baseball, Fireworks, Life

If you enjoy any of the things in the headline, you should watch this — Bill Murray’s speech on being inducted into the South Atlantic League (known down South as

Short Stories

Short Stories

Road trip: Milwaukee

Thoughts on Writing

Henry Aaron, the greatest

The Friday Wrap, 5/9/14

What It All Means: The SEC-Big 12 Bowl

Good dog. Good, good dog.

Apologies

After Mister Rogers

56 Up

Thirteen yeahs on the Drive-By Truckers

Nicknames from selected Charlotte Observer obituaries, May 2014

Bill Murray, Baseball, Fireworks, Life