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Dirk Cotton is a retired executive of a Fortune 500 Internet company who loves to spend time with his family, fly fish, shoot sporting clays, attend college baseball games, sail, follow the Wildcats, and write. Everything else he does is just for fun. A computer programmer-cum-marketing executive-cum-financial planner who now wants to be a writer, he apparently can't decide what he wants to be when he grows up. He and his family moved to The Southern Part of Heaven in 2005 and couldn't be happier with that decision.
contributor
member since 6.17.09
chapel hill, nc
dob:
12.21.52
personal site: being southern and below the line
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dixie snowstorms
grab some beer and a toilet seat, we're going sleddin'!
2.2.10
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It isn't news that southerners can't handle snowstorms. In fact, it's the quintessential tired joke. Still, nothing quite prepares you for the actual experience.
A few weeks back, we got a little snow in Chapel Hill. And, I mean a little. The non-traveled portions of the roads had a bit of white slush for a while, but traffic was light because the local TV stations had been warning people to “just stay off the roads” for the past two days.
Since the roads seemed barely wet, let alone icy, my wife and I drove our front-wheel drive minivan to Durham for breakfast at Guglhuph Bakery. Driving out four-lane US 15-501, we saw not one, but two four-wheel drive SUV's abandoned in a little mud in the median after having spun 180° in three-sixteenths of an inch of partly cloudy. Either they were unable to drive in damp dirt with off-road VEE-hicles, or they were afraid of getting their tires dirty, but either way they had just given up and walked away.
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read on
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unfriending facebook
why i had to let you go
1.27.10
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sticking the landing
1.18.10
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the old green ford
carl, the car and the cornfield
1.17.10
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re: fall back
This is hysterical - and I live in Hawaii - we don't even DO daylight savings time. This style of humor reminds me of Will Rogers. Excellent. Thanks for the laughs!
re: fall back
That was truly beautiful!
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
Awesome as usual.
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
Hey Dirk: appreciate your great sense of humor; and the lists thing: recently, trying to cure myself of expecting the worst (while not completly a nay sayer, I do have a tendency to think good things happen to other people, unless I do them myself); I decided to do a daily "Ten Good Things!" list. The first day, I actually surpassed myself, and went to a dozen. By the end of the week, I had one "good:" I've decided to abandon this list, as being a Pollyanna is not healthy for a writer! Cheers!
Check me out if you like: On Intrepid as CJ Carroll, on Lulu, my 13 books: http://lulu.com/cjcarrollbooks
Keep on writing!
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
A fun surprise to stumble across at close to 4 am. It's original, hit my funny bones (because I am indeed guilty of a few of your points), and was a good, breezy read. Very enjoyable!
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