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He’s no sissy

The main character in Tom Robbins’s novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is Sissy Hankshaw, who – with the help of her abnormally large thumbs – hitchhikes across America.

Unfortunately, the main character in the Evangeline Cemetery is physically unable to follow Sissy’s inspirational example.

Evangeline Cemetery
near Ville Platte, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

Perfumerie

The perfume shop window display, in late-afternoon winter sunlight reminded me of the Tom Robbins’s novel Jitterbug Perfume

New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.16.2019

January 5

Well, of course a jar of beans is not the same thing as Can o’ Beans, but it still sort of makes me think of Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins. I can’t help it – it’s just the way I think.

Lubbock, Texas