Mary Alice

June 15, 2010
Thumbnail image for Mary Alice One of the things I most wish to impart with the Laloba page is tribal knowledge. Women’s knowledge — that special knowledge that civilized human beings, particularly Americans, don’t have (or even know they need) anymore. . . When my aunts were growing up in Blue Ridge there were grandparents and aunts and uncles and [...]
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Marshfield, another time, another world

June 15, 2010
Thumbnail image for Marshfield, another time, another world I’m on vacation and have fallen under the spell of Massachusetts. We rented an old house (if houses aren’t approaching the century mark, somehow they don’t appeal to me). It is on a quiet street that leads to the ocean, and its true name is The Boat House.
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Atlanta, My Town

June 15, 2010
Thumbnail image for Atlanta, My Town I wish I could claim the authorship here, but I didn’t write it. It is funny, and every word is true. I know, I live here!   So, eat a peach, and enjoy! This came from a lovely girl named nessarox@hotmail.com. Atlanta is composed mostly of one-way streets. The only way to get out of [...]
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Who’s Your Daddy? Soul Dances and Forgiveness

June 14, 2010
Thumbnail image for Who’s Your Daddy? Soul Dances and Forgiveness And if, in the Great Soul Dance in the Sky known as reincarnation, we did make a pact to act out that bizarre relationship on this plane, his sacrifice was far greater than mine
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nightbloomers

June 13, 2010
Thumbnail image for nightbloomers “We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” Omar Nelson Bradley © 2002 TGregory and Laloba Press It is night on this desert, the sands no longer crisp white as in the sun, but hued in shadow and light from the moon. The stars [...]
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ajay possibilities, circa 1994

May 15, 2010
Back when there was a lot of conversation about the murders of Nichole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, I tried to imagine how and why someone would frame OJ Simpson. Here’s one of the three possibilities I came up with.
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Jumping the broom: Taylor and Ashley Evans

May 3, 2010
Thumbnail image for Jumping the broom: Taylor and Ashley Evans For years I’ve had on my family photos a link to Ashley Evans, with the relationship remark, “wish she were mine”. Yesterday she came as close to that as she ever will, when she married my son Taylor.
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Denzel Washington and my abercrombie & fitch kid

May 3, 2010
Thumbnail image for Denzel Washington and my abercrombie & fitch kid My kid is in a movie with Denzel Washington filmed at his high school. Remember the Titans.
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D. B. Cooper’s legend grows as the crime story ages

May 3, 2010
Thumbnail image for D. B. Cooper’s legend grows as the crime story ages D.B. COOPER, BIGFOOT, UFOS HAVE A THING IN COMMON, Events and places in the Pacific Northwest are among those covered in a new book, “100 of the World’s Greatest Mysteries,” by E. Randall Floyd, a collection of hundreds of unusual happenings around the world, from ancient times to today. Four chapters deal with happenings that [...]
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