“Anything sweet in the cupboard?” I asked. December and the holidays bring out the worst in my sweet tooth. “We still have some of these…”…
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Category: Time Capsules
Elvis Week Revisited: Elvis is Everywhere
A ‘Little’ Memphis in the Verde Valley, AZ Time Capsules – this story was originally published in December 2019 Story and Photos By Ken Billett…
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Life with Zoe
Time Capsules Words and Zoe Photos By Ken Billett A woman, bundled up for the frigid November morning, rounded a cement pathway, heading in our…
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Stax in my Soul
By Ken Billett On a warm Saturday afternoon in late May, my birthday week celebration came to an end at the Stax Museum of American…
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Happy Birthday, Spiderman
Great fortunes in my treatment for stage IV metastatic melanoma By Ken Billett Seated in a waiting area just outside the Radiology department, a man…
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Birthday Week: May 17
May Seventeenth By Ken Billett The metal slug lies in a small slot inside my wooden lap desk—the kind of old item you might find…
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Delta Dispatches: A Blues Traveler’s Diary, Part Two
Words and photos by Ken Billett April 16, 2021, 12:10 pm—Today’s adventure starts at The Blue Biscuit in Indianola, Mississippi. The Biscuit is a funky…
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Delta Dispatches: A Blues Traveler’s Diary, Part One
Words and Photos by Ken Billett April 16, 2021, 7:15 am—A crop-duster, probably no more than one hundred feet or so above, buzzes over our…
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Green Thumb, Blue Heart
By Ken Billett Over the years, gardening has grown into an obsession. Forgive the pun. But what started as seasonal maintenance—replanting and mulching flower beds…
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Time Capsule
By Ken Billett “Where are the multivitamins?” “In the big white bottle.” “They’re all big white bottles.” “So, find the label that says Multivitamin.” “Here it…
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