Saturday, July 25, 2026

SLOWPOKE by Hawkshaw Hawkins

 

Lonesome 7-7203 LONESOME 7-7203 ~ Hawkshaw Hawkins (1962)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYvAsohBhc

"Lonesome 7-7203"~ Hawkshaw Hawkins (1962) King #45-5712 - The flip side of, "Everything Has Changed" - Recorded at the end of 1962 and released on March 2, 1963. LONESOME-77203 was composed by Justin Tubb. Hawkshaw Hawkins was born Harold Franklin Hawkins on December 22, 1921 in Huntington, West Virginia and on died March 5, 1963 in same the airplane accident that claimed the lives of Cowboy Copas and Patsy Cline. His wife was female C&W singer, Jean Shepard, who was pregnant with their child at the time of the crash. His "Lonesome 7-7203" became a hit record, but Hawkins never knew it. Lonesome 7-7203  LONESOME 7-7203 ~ Hawkshaw Hawkins (1962)

 The Tragic Story of Jean Shepard & Hawkshaw Hawkins – The Widow Who Survived the Opry Crash 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grR_EbBWf6c

HANK THOMPSON - Hangover Tavern

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYNpv3QYvO8

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn

Meet Julie Chiou

 

Hi! I’m Julie Chiou and I’m the blogger behind Table for Two. I’d like to personally welcome you to my table! Table for Two has a variety of wholesome recipes as well as guides and resources, including my travels!

Julie Chiou in a white shirt and light blue jeans standing at a white table with various ingredients and a knife on a cutting board

I’m on a mission to simplify the relationship between food and busy lifestyles. I strive to inspire you with real recipes for real life that are always deliciously easy, innovative, and approachable that your whole family will love! I believe that you can always find time to make a homemade meal and I’m here to help you!

About Table for Two by Julie Chiou

I started this blog in 2011 because I needed a creative outlet from my full-time job. I’ve always been a very creative person (my background is in web development and design), and my full-time job wasn’t giving me much of that. I was becoming frustrated and creative folks like me need an outlet to flourish; so I used my web development and design skills to carve out this little space on the Internet!

My passion for food dates all the way back to childhood where instead of watching cartoons, my mom had on Julia Child or Yan Can Cook on PBS for me to watch. I was constantly in the kitchen trying to help out and shadow my mom. As I grew older, the passion of being in the kitchen and feeding others never dimmed; instead I was ignited with the desire to love people through food. I would say food and keeping you full is my love language.

I believe that food brings people together and helps create long-lasting memories. There’s a reason why we all gather in the kitchen, go out to eat, cook together, etc. — food is the common denominator!

I decided now that my husband retired from teaching high school physics that I was now his home stewardess. Would you like more coffee, can I get you breakfast? Would you like a beer? Is everything okay? I laugh about this but it's true.

write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

 https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your

Corey Doctorow: As a destructive economic pathology, AI is extraordinary.

Billy Collins and BB King

 https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/11/22/the-blues-by-billy-collins/

Chasing a food memory

 https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/my-quest-for-the-perfect-biscuit/

Writer-at-large Stephen Harrigan is a longtime contributor to Texas Monthly whose work has also appeared in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the New York Times Book Review, and other national publications. He was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Awards in the commentary category for his writing at Texas Monthly. The following year, he won the Texas Institute of Letters’ Edwin “Bud” Shrake Award for his Texas Monthly story “Off Course.” He has also received the TIL’s Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement, the Texas Medal of Arts Award, and the Texas Book Festival’s Texas Writer Award, and he is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

Harrigan is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton; Big Wonderful Thing, a history of Texas; and The Eye of the Mammoth, a career-spanning collection of his essays, many of which were written for Texas Monthly. Harrigan’s latest book is the novel The Leopard Is Loose. He is also a screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives in Austin.

 

Homemade English Tea Biscuits Recipe: Better Than Store-Bought

 https://www.plumdeluxe.com/blogs/blog/english-tea-biscuits-recipe?srsltid=AfmBOoq4-NhvDBT6BqKQe3rswRQ38ZrSjYF5zXq-qHsJLzu5eYeB09Rl

There’s no light at the end of the tunnel. There isn’t even a tunnel. —Charles Bukowski

We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive. —George Orwell

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Brutti ma Buoni (Ugly but Good)

 Hazelnuts, sugar, egg-whites, & salt

https://www.marcellinaincucina.com/pavlova-daring-kitchen-challenge-for/

Osteoporosis & The Pool: Building Bone Strength in the Water

 https://www.anderson-aquatics.com/blog/osteoporosis

Sue Coe: Paintings, Drawings & Prints A pencil is cheap and can be carried anywhere, behind an ear, along with a scrap of paper. Art can happen, function as visual journalism, a record. I draw every day. If you stand on any street corner for twelve hours making a drawing every ten minutes you are recording social and political life in the way of a witness.

“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn’t want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind.” ― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and herever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.” ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.” ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn’t degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them.” ― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy