Is it totally inappropriate for a woman to smoke a pipe?
Okay, okay. Just askin’. I already know the answer. And, for the record, I’ve never actually smoked a pipe…or a bowl of any kind, for that matter.
My Grandpa Ludwig used to smoke a pipe. Just a whiff of pipe smoke takes me back to that old house in Ontario, Oregon, where my grandpa sat in his easy chair, smoking silently, the grandkids swirling around in play.
We were on the lake with some friends this summer, and Steve pulled out a pipe and let Derek try it out. I was entranced by the smell. These Lutheran guys think they need to sit around drinking Scotch and smoking cigars, but I call for a revolution: pipes and…what? Brandy? Port? Claret, as the English would say? Craft beer? I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.
C.S. Lewis smoking his pipe