Why It Matters

I told you earlier that Alabama was the last port of call for cruise ship lovers Jim and Bonnie Stafford. While that is true in terms of home ownership it’s not an entirely accurate statement, and Jim was a stickler for precision. “I restored this Chevy” did not mean “I paid someone to restore this…

What do you do when your whole world changes?  Jim Stafford and his wife, Bonnie, raised children for 22 years, but now in their early forties the couple found themselves alone for the first time since high school. Oh, they had a walleyed cat named after Marty Feldman and a Pomeranian with a crooked underbite,…

“They call those mountains? Those barely count as hills. Can you imagine what these hillbillies would think if they saw the Rockies? Now those are mountains.” Jim was at the wheel of his 1977 Ford LTD station wagon, purchased new from a Fort Worth, Texas dealership just a few months prior to driving the beast…