Tonight, my husband and I went to watch the band Joy Bomb, from Memphis, at Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was just six o’clock but at least 75 folks showed up to the gorgeous Art Church on Whittington Avenue to watch Joy Bomb, a post punk, rock and roll band. It was still bright and sunny outside. but the Art Church has amazing stained glass, lovely wooden floors and great acoustics, so the vibe was perfect. When the show started

One of the hardest things for parents is .watching their child fall in love (or at least they think they are in love) withan absolute jack wagon, with a mean, rude, disrespectful jerk. They "fall in love" with people who don't deserve them. They're literally not good enough. I've seen all my children fall in love with people so obviously wrong for them, stupid people, with no future, people who didn't respect them or the family, idiots who are obviously only interested i

This is Frank, the beautiful jerk rooster When one of my new hens started crowing, really cock a doodle dooing, in the morning. I was upset. "You're supposed to be a girl, a hen, stop doing that," I yelled. My lectures didn't work. I knew Lovie the Hen had to go, Lovie was a boy and her new name was Frank. I only wanted hens because I wanted eggs. I didn't want a rooster and fertilized eggs. That would be disgusting. A friend,, with a farm, took Frank the rooster and I wa