Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: sleep

  • Spending quality time in my crawl space

    A story of learning the secrets of sump pumps, including a trip into a crawl space with two feet of water in it. Good times, good times.

  • It’s easier to cut with a sharp knife

    This post from 2011, which I’ve freshly updated, deserves another chance. I hang my most-used kitchen knives on the wall next to my sink so they’re always at hand. Use wears them down, of course. When they won’t glide right through a tomato or when a roasted chicken shreds rather than slices, I know it’s time…

  • Dust

    Sleep comes slowly most nights, and not at all if I try it in my bed. So I lean back onto the family-room couch, pillows behind my back, a stiff but warm blanket wrapped around me when it’s cold. I watch cartoons, sometimes with a bourbon or scotch in my hand, for as long as…