Other Side of House with Patch on Roof

Notice we have a TV antenna.

It’s no good anymore. You have to get cable.

The cable has commercials.

Noncommercial, public broadcasting has commercials. Plus fund drives.

The worldwide web has commercials.

You need a high-speed DSL modem to download all the graphics. For the commercials.

I have a dial-up modem. It chugs away. I can’t use my phone when I’m online.

I am an anachronism. A throwback.

I still have a post office box.

I still write letters.

My books read like a letter from a friend, or to a friend.

Wouldn’t you be interested in reading about a guy who lives across the street from a trailer?

Hey—I make the trailer look good.

Plus, I live across the street from Parker Bayou. You can see the water through the trees.