By MONTE DUTTON On Saturday night, I slept well on paper. Click here. I’d been sick for a few days. Not on paper. In the toilet. I was better, but not enough to be too far away from the bathroom. Even in a shoebox, the bathroom is still a long way when nature calls in …
Category: Life
Trips to see my mamas
By MONTE DUTTON The captains meet while broadcasters from both teams go live with the coin flip (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. After road trips to Greenville, S.C., on Thursday night and Clinton, S.C., on Friday night, I’m still playing catch-up. It took most of Saturday writing about two football games, processing the photos and …
Looking forward to a deluge
By MONTE DUTTON A triumphant kickoff at Unity Stadium erupts with fireworks, cheering fans, and football excitement. Click here. From time to time, the world is perfectly described by a three-word Jackson Browne song title from the 1970s. “Before the Deluge.” From time to time is gradually becoming all the time about everything. Thirty years …
Hopes are high for (Rosman) Tigers
By MONTE DUTTON Rosman slipped past West-Oak in a practice game (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The Country Skillet was jammed late Friday afternoon. I was the only person there who didn’t know everyone else there, and they were all talking to everyone else. I sat there, reading about Rosman High’s football team in the …
Rosman, just up the road
By MONTE DUTTON Acapulco Mexican Restaurant welcomes diners beneath a colorful sunset in the Blue Ridge Mountains. (This is a bit exaggerated. Then again, it's a cartoon.) Click here. I awakened recently thinking about running backs. I certainly never was one. Neither was my brother, though he would have been better suited. Football has many …
The sameness of the news
By MONTE DUTTON Two identical news anchors deliver unchanging breaking news. Click here. I’m getting old. I am old. It follows that I am set in my ways. The evening news. I like to watch it, but it’s getting harder. The anchors could be AI-generated. They’re not. There apparently is a Tom Llamas. Wikipedia says …
A quick trip back
By MONTE DUTTON A quiet small town street glows warmly in the early morning light. Click here. I breezed through Laurens County on Thursday. It was an economical trip. I went to the post office, discovering to my surprise that the box wasn’t crammed. A big manila envelope was inside, but it was to an …
Rainy Monday thoughts from a rainy Sunday
By MONTE DUTTON Uh, don't tell me I've nothing to do. Click here. A few things to ponder on a dreary Monday morning: The next generation will never learn to tie its shoes. It’s a useless knack. I never do it anymore. I was up to 2 a.m. watching the stock cars race. It’s a …
Yessiree, I found some barbecue!
By MONTE DUTTON Customers enjoy a lively drive-thru experience. Click here. Everywhere has its unique places. They don’t seem unique to the folks who live there because, well, they are theirs. But I am new to this area, and I am amazed. During the NASCAR years, I took an avid interest in eating places. I …
New thoughts from the hills
By MONTE DUTTON A charming mountain general store and café with people enjoying the porch For the first time in short-term memory, no World Cup game was scheduled for Wednesday. The world will survive. We are back at war with Iran. I think the world will survive. It’s so easy to overreact. It just seems …
