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Notes From Rabbit Tobacco Field

This is an incomplete, but growing, collection of my blog posts for the past twenty-one years. The name is derived from a place from my childhood that I have written about in my books and is also the name of my home office. The topics vary as I write about whatever interests me.

2024

On The Sixth Day
December 19, 2024

Bethlehem, Georgia & The Christmas Card Tradition
December 12, 2024

A Modern Death
December 11, 2024

Dispatch: A Classic Winter Evening
December 04, 2024
As November Ends
November 27, 2024

A Different Life, That Nightlife
November 17, 2024
Looking The Other Way

November 13, 2024

Some Other Time
November 10, 2024

Zone A
October 31, 2024

Hidden Mountains
October 25, 2024

Elder Mill Covered Bridge
October 22, 2024

Dead Leaves 2024
October 17, 2024

The Summer of 2024
September 20, 2024

The Wind Down of Summer
August 14, 2024

The Names
July 23, 2024

Wildcat
July 16, 2024

Without Distortion
July 11, 2024

All Things 90s
July 03, 2024

The Political Whiners
July 02, 2024

Immediate Days
June 29, 2024

Sebastian
June 28, 2024

Shadow's Gravity
June 28, 2024

Steve Albini Dies
May 13, 2024

Update On My Next Novel
May 03, 2024

Movies, Thoughts and Walks In May
May 02, 2024

Spring Roses and Bob Edwards
April 26, 2024

April Movies and Music
April 03, 2024

February Gray Days
February 20, 2024

At My Most Fragile
February 14, 2024

The Middle Of Somewhere
January 20, 2024

I Have Seen That Face Before
January 4, 2024
2023

Inside My Skull
December 30, 2023
All Dressed Up For Christmas
December 24, 2023
Season's Greetings And Christmas Cards

December 23, 2023
November 17, 2023
Unpaid Shoes
July 29, 2023
Pride in 2023
June 02, 2023
Scenes From Spring
April 26, 2023
April 22, 2023
Untied
March 24, 2023
The Miles Behind Me
March 06, 2023
Something That Summer
March 04, 2023
Weather Be Damned
March 01, 2023
Go Get Lost
February 10, 2023

2022

December 29, 2022
December 26, 2022
The Christmas of 1983
December 23, 2022
The Winter Solstice 2022
December 21, 2022
Merry Christmas 2022
December 16, 2022
Influences For Uncivil X
December 3, 2022
Stranger
September 19, 2022
100 Years
September 12, 2022
A Mock Interview
August 23, 2022
The 90s or The 70s
 July 17, 2022
My Next Novel
June 7, 2022
 Reflections
May 24, 2022
Dear Paulding County
May 22nd, 2022
 The Pretty Flowers
May 20th, 2022
January 1, 2022
2021
Subject To The Algorithm
November 26, 2021
Halloween Free Reading
October 28, 2021
On Walking
May 14, 2021
 After Terminal
April 3, 2021
2020
Exile In Atlanta
December 5th, 2020
Human Memory
November 9th, 2020
The River Of Truth
October 24, 2020
My Side Of The Wall
October 22, 2020
2019
Lights of Life
December 31, 2019
Render Unto
March 26, 2019
A Trophy
March 20, 2019
Another Day, Another Door
March 19th, 2019
Junebug
March 18th, 2019
Uncivil Kids
March 03, 2019
One Strange Family
February 23, 2019
The Executioner's Song
February 20, 2019
Wipers' Silver Sail
January 20, 2019
Magnapop
January 15, 2019
For The Love Of The Turtleneck
January 11th, 2019
Avant Parker
January 06, 2019
My Favorite Albums
January 5th, 2019
2019 Arrived
January 1, 2019
2018
September 15, 2018
Enigmatic Miami
August 18th, 2018
High Falls, Alabama
June 10, 2018
Desoto Falls, Georgia
May 18, 2018
Vines Gardens
May 17, 2018
May Blooms In Oakland Cemetery
May 11th, 2018
A Saturday 
May 4th, 2018
Strange Days Indeed
April 28, 2018
 Insta-Glamour
Febuary 8th, 2018
Living In The Absurd
January 30, 2018
January 25, 2018
Facebook Does Evil
January 24, 2018
January 6, 2018
 2017
December 29, 2017
Reading In The Shadows
December 17, 2017
December 3, 2017
October 4, 2017 
September 14, 2017
August 30th, 2017
August 25, 2017
Dispatch: The Ugly Landscape
August 12, 2017
February 18, 2017
Fashion For The Free Mind
February 05, 2017
In The Naked Winter
January 31, 2017
January 29, 2017
Surrealism in East Atlanta
January 28, 2017
The Old Decatur Waterworks
January 25, 2017
January 24, 2017
A Storm
January 08, 2017
2016
2016 A Year
December 31, 2016
Christmastime In The City

December 24, 2016
December 07, 2016
November 26, 2016
Dispatch From Abercorn Street
November 17, 2016 
Up At The River
July 06,  2016
Mount Oglethorpe
May 30, 2016
May 12, 2016
Bucksnort To Enigma
April 01, 2016
February 28, 2016
2015
See Ya 2015
December 31, 2015
Staring Out The Backdoor
December 11, 2015
November 19, 2015
The Selfie of Merde
November 15, 2015
Oscar de la Renta At SCAD FASH
October 16, 2015
Athens At Break
March 17, 2015
Juror Number Eight
February 11, 2015
January 3, 2015
2014
Cochran Mill Park
July 10, 2014
Summer Colors
June 20, 2014
2013
Sunrise of Edgewood
December 13, 2013
The Grant Park Overlook
December 08, 2013
Finding Miss Daisy
December 07, 2013
Nobody
December 04, 2013
November 04, 2013
Flux Night 2013
October 23, 2013
Evening Sun
October 12, 2013
Leu Gardens
April 10, 2013
Mural At Howell and Irwin Streets
February 28, 2013
Flux Night 2012
February 27, 2013
The Abbey At Westview
February 17, 2013
February 10, 2013
2012
November 07, 2012
Recovery Toll Road
September 27, 2012
September 20, 2012 
August 19, 2012
2011
Hiking Sawnee Mountain
February 22, 2011
2010
The Tunnel Of Time
May 11, 2010
The Snow Followed
January 08, 2010
2009
March 28, 2009
Why I Divorced Facebook
March 24, 2009
2008
April 15, 2008
Chances
March 11, 2008
March 09, 2008
The Sock Capital
February 21, 2008
2007
Walk In The Dark
November 13, 2007
Sex Degrees of Separation
September 10, 2007
R.I.P. Hoedowns
August 16, 2007
Incognito
March 28, 2007
Joy Wall
March 24, 2007
March 22, 2007
Playtime
March 01, 2007
Not Just Atlanta
February 05, 2007
Kudzu To Concrete
January 09, 2007
2006
That Man Peter Berlin
November 29, 2006
The Deep Gay South
November 23, 2006
Fogi Is A Bastard
October 13, 2006
At The Cabaret
October 12, 2006
Batter Up
August 07, 2006
Atlanta Too Gay?
June 27, 2006
May 16, 2006
2005
Fabulous Fourth
July 06, 2005
2004
Strange To Be Me
September 01, 2004
July 28, 2004
No More Beginnings
March 31, 2004
Ambulance Ride
March 24, 2004
January 13, 2004
2003
Night Worker
October 21, 2003
October 19,  2003
October Chill
October 15, 2003
October 01, 2003
Bad Dancer
September 19, 2003
September 12, 2003
July 15, 2003