Archive - T Scott

They’ve never let me live it down. Hah. As if it’s my fault that they thought a “Set List” was a list set in stone. My fault that they arranged their…

May 17 •

T. Scott Plutchak

Boutch's harmonica

Boutch’s Harmonica At the Armadillo Ball we’re sitting at a table off to the side when Boutch looms up behind me. Usually his eyes are glimmering with a…

May 10 •

T. Scott Plutchak

April 2024

From the Thicket to the Holler

Lynn’s a little ahead of us. She looks to be nearly doubled over with laughter. When Bruce and I reach her, she’s catching her breath, pointing at the…

Apr 27 •

T. Scott Plutchak

March 2024

Gutenberg In The Whirlwind

1. Back in the days when I was doing a lot of speechifying at conferences and writing the occasional column for one or another professional journal, I…

Mar 28 •

T. Scott Plutchak

February 2024

This isn’t new. These divergent views of America, rooted in fundamental disagreement about the role of government, our responsibilities toward others…

Feb 12 •

T. Scott Plutchak

January 2024

Washington Avenue

(The Library, Part 2)

Jan 14 •

T. Scott Plutchak

November 2023

There is nothing lovely or quaint or picturesque about this street. Iberville. I look down its grimy canyon from my spot on the balcony, past the…

Nov 23, 2023 •

T. Scott Plutchak

September 2023

I’d been gifted by foxes twice before. At Slide Lake, up in the northwest corner of Wyoming, a small one appeared in my campground as I sat with my…

Sep 12, 2023 •

T. Scott Plutchak

July 2023

I'm making risotto. Lynn declared it so last Tuesday, after she'd made a stock with the bones of the turkey she'd spatchcocked for smoking on the 4th of…

Jul 29, 2023 •

T. Scott Plutchak

Warszawa Stories

By 9:00, the older librarians had linked arms and were dancing around the bonfire. The blaze roared, ran ten feet high. The songs were incomprehensible…

Jul 4, 2023 •

T. Scott Plutchak

June 2023

"We interrupt our regularly scheduled essay..."

"Squirt guns! We need squirt guns!" Sam has taken an unhealthy interest in the bonsai on the shelf at the back of the couch and I'm remembering one of…

Jun 16, 2023 •

T. Scott Plutchak

May 2023

I bristle every time some coastal progressive proclaims they’re never going to set foot in Alabama / Florida / Texas / South Carolina – whichever…

May 29, 2023 •

T. Scott Plutchak

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