One time Daddy told me that our last name is French, and it means French Fry. Then I told all my friends at school and everybody laughed at me! 

- Bethie

 So Missy Hooks Dollahon and I went to BurgerFi for lunch...

Walker:  I'll take a BurgerFi double cheeseburger garden style.

Cashier:  You want tomatoes on that?

Walker:  Yes, everything on it.

Cashier:  Lettuce too?

Walker: Yes, it's the garden style one I want (note:  the burger that's wrapped in lettuce where the bun should be).

Cashier:  And onions too?

Walker:  Yes, everything on it.  The works.

Cashier:  And the BurgerFi sauce?

Walker:  Yep.  Load the thing up to bear.

Cashier:  Pickles too?

Walker:  Yes.  Everything on it, please.

Cashier:  Okay, for you Miss?

Missy:  I'll take a Burgerfi Cheeseburger with everything on it.

Cashier:  You want tomatoes on that?

Missy:  Yes, please.  Everything on it...

***  AND THIS IS WHEN A SPACE TIME CONTINUUM WAS TORN INTO THE FABRIC OF MATTER AROUND US FROM OUR COLLETIVE RAGE AND FURY AND WE BRIEFLY SAW TIME AND LIFE ITSELF UNFOLD LIKE A SPOOL OUT FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT BEFORE WE RESUMED OUR PERCH ON THE BLUE ORB WE CALL EARTH AND WE STARED AT EACHOTHER WITH SLACK JAWS AND DIMMED MINDS  ***

Shep: Are y'all organ donors? 

Walker: Well, I gave away a piano a few years ago...

When Walker, weeks shy of becoming 5, was about to start kindergarten in Pensacola, a neighbor advised me solemnly that I should prepare him. What? 

He didn't know how to count, his ABC's, what street he lived on, his birthday. Oh, my.

I started out with something simple.

"What's your name?"

"Walker."

"What's your other name?"

"Dollahon."

"O.K. You have THREE names. What's the middle one?"

"Ma-jean."

-Mimi

Winston to Walker: 'You have the hands of a homoerotic Belgian poet.'

Apple --> Tree

Ten things I am glad Missy didn't know about me before she agreed to marry me... 1) I've never had a sentimental attachment to an animal, 2) I hate popcorn...the taste of it, the smell of it..., 3) I love using ellipses when writing, 4) I am not handy...in fact I'll make it worse, 5) if left alone I'd never change my clothes all day no matter what I'm doing, 6) I hate talking on the phone (and talking in bed...Missy gets chatty at bedtime...come to think of it, Missy is always chatty), 7) I enjoy cigarettes, 8) I am a huge skeptic of all new, faddish science and dietary "breakthroughs", 9) I'm bad a finishing lists...

Walker describing our differences:

"Me, I'm Burlington Electric. Conservative, steady, with modest growth year after year.
You, you're a penny stock. Wildly unpredictable. Way down here at 10am, way up here by 4pm. You can make a fortune and lose a fortune, all in one day."

Chestnut brown cascade.
Emerald pools pull me in.
Lost.  Found.  Lost again.

-Walker 

Walker's morning words of affirmation: "You're an extremely good looking woman. You have lots of other really, really negative qualities. But know this, you're very good looking."

Tree --> nut

4:23pm

Shepherd: Mom, I'm a child prodigy.




10:18pm

Walker: Wow, I am such a savant.