Like every waiter you ever met who was really an actor - we are all just writers in search of that big break.  Just a few ideas that have been floating around here at Blue Rock Station...

Jay’s Ramblings:

• Give us your poor, your tired, your buttermilk pancakes - - Funny how much Cracker Barrel reminds me of America
• Harvey - - The one-eyed silent man who left a huge void in a small town when he died.
• Not Every Problem Should Be Fixed...Just Ask My Cat - The joys of neutering your pets.
• Zen Fishing - Life's little lessons that I learned while sitting in a boat not catching fish.
• Marbles  - it was a strange place to find my marbles... while digging in the dirt in a garden in France
• September 11th Remembered - One year later and just what did we really learn?
• All I Ever Needed to Know about Business I learned at Boyd's Garage - Skip the MBA program and just breakdown in Dobson, North Carolina.
• It's Either Your Master Cylinder or Your Gallbladder - The striking similarities and disturbing differences between a trip to the emergency room and a trip to your local garage
• Time Travel - a 500-word tragic and hopeful short story that spans generations  
• Old Stone Walls - a tourist with a credit card can always defeat the best defenses the Roman Empire can muster
• BBC 3 Long Wave - listening to cricket on the radio is perhaps the most boring thing imaginable... except maybe the shipping reports
• It Happens only Every 1000 Years or so... - Oh, if only we could blame all our problems on the Millennium Bug
• A Technological Bonanza? - How come the invention of color television was cool, but the Internet is just a pain? 
• Dining in France - how to fill up nearly two hours at a restaurant without actually getting anything to eat
• Mud isn't all They're Slinging Down at City Hall - A small French town institutes a new, and incomprehensible garbage program
• Grief - A poem for a dear friend who lost the love of her life.
• The Cat Who Came Home Forever - The little girl who can't seem to pass by any stray without bringing it home.
• The Queen Mum is Still Dead - Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at age 101 and the people of Britain mourn the gin drinking, horse betting, dearly loved "Gran" to the nation 
• The French Election - 2002 - or, Drew Carey's evil brother takes on  Al Gore
• Too Much to do - In this over-saturated world, the man holding himself hostage while buying a shirt seems to be the only sane person around.
• Which Way Is Up? - Making sense in a world where nobody gives good directions.
• Les Flics et les chiens - watching the cars smash into each other on the corner near our house in France