Stephen Mark Rainey

Todd Keisling's The Sundowner's Dance is one of the best audiobooks I've listened to in ages. It's nice to have "mature" characters as the key players, and the characterizations feel spot-on. Malcolm Hillgartner's narration is also perfect — his voice captures each character believably and consistently, without ridiculous affectations that can ruin an otherwise good […]

  Every year, Piedmont Arts Association, our local arts center, features an exhibit called "Expressions," which showcases the work of local artists, and this is the second year that Ms. B. has entered some of her work. This year, both of her pieces — "Scarlet Elf Cups" and "Lake Superior" (shown above) — won purchase […]

Brugger had one of her semi-regular artsy-craftsy retreats this weekend in Hillsborough, NC, which isn't too far from Mebane, NC, which is where Catrina's Tequila & Taco Bar is, which is one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, which led us to decide that I should go geocaching in that area today so we could meet […]

On June 27, 1966, I was at my grandparents' house in Gainesville, Georgia, and I saw a commercial for an upcoming TV show called Dark Shadows. The advert made it look kind of creepy. Seven-year-old me was already into all kinds of creepy, so this new soap seemed just the ticket. I recall watching that […]