http://knox.villagesoup.com?source=rss Latest posts by David Grima Thu, 23 May 2013 23:00:30 EDT Thu, 23 May 2013 23:00:30 EDT en-us Copyright 2011 Courier Publications, LLC http://knox.villagesoup.com?source=rss /media/Common/8/79/555295/t200-t300-grima.jpg 200 150 http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/dressed-bloated-and-exhorted/1004340?source=rss Below my concrete towers, stretching several hundred yards northeast from the old Stinson wharf, is a piece of shore known as Sandy Beach. I am told the city is going to clean it up using volunteers this Saturday. Everyone is supposed to gather first at city hall to collect a T-shirt, which I suppose is one way of saying that all beach cleaners must be dressed. You may have noticed a recent tale in the Dear Old ... http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/dressed-bloated-and-exhorted/1004340 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:40:00 EDT news@courierpublicationsllc.com (David Grima) General Column http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/a-pig-called-richard-milhous/1001535?source=rss I am not a gardener, and know almost nothing about how to manage a garden. This is why I am all the more serious about good things that happen accidentally in any garden I am associated with. My ruinous old place down on Linden Street, where the yard frequently resembles the battlefield of the Somme, or in dry weather El Alamein, was visited last year but some sort of living but speechless thing that took root, ... http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/a-pig-called-richard-milhous/1001535 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:03:00 EDT news@courierpublicationsllc.com (David Grima) General Column http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/sliding-ever-close-to-morning/998372?source=rss Bored almost to tears by the ordinary stuff of life, Fabulous Bob and I recently conducted an experiment with his indoor-outdoor thermometer. He placed the outdoors part of the device into his freezer, and set the indoor part down in the kitchen table. We began guessing how cold his freezer would actually be. I guessed it would be 17 degrees, and he thought 13. Compared to whatever we had been doing earlier, ... http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/sliding-ever-close-to-morning/998372 Fri, 10 May 2013 14:22:00 EDT news@courierpublicationsllc.com (David Grima) General Column