why i’ll never again drive my car on a BMX track

It was Friday, March 13, 1992, and Chad and I had 30 minutes to kill before Trey would clock out at Kroger.  Next door lay Drakes Creek park, where I used to ride my blue Mongoose over the BMX track a few years prior.  I looked at that chunk of hilly, curvy dirt and knew [...]

where have you gone, fair queen zima? i used to turn my lonely eyes to you.

For the rest of my life, I will remember exactly where I was when I learned that no more Zima would be made. It was October 20; I was driving on I-24 West towards Nashville, passing Winchester, TN.  I had to pull over and cry.  I felt as though I’d learned my first love had [...]

how my 17′ 8” buick lesabre became “the digger”

I’d only been 16 a couple of months when I loaded up my trunk with water balloons and my back seat with fellow high school juniors to go attack the freshmen’s homecoming float worksite. We sped along Johnny Cash Parkway towards Gallatin, when a voice from the back told me I’d just missed my [...]

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