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Yesterday, feeling a bit nostalgic, I decided to go for a drive out in the country. I wanted to visit some of the places I had known and loved as a boy. The word “nostalgia” as we know it was first used by Homer to capture the feeling Odysseus felt as he desired to return home…
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Today is the Ides of March (Beware!), so I decided to do a little reading of Marc Antony’s Eulogy from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. So if you have ever wondered what it might be like to hear Shakespeare with a Southern accent, then this is for you!
I am a dog person. But surely it must be admitted that all dogs (1) are not created equal, and (2) all dogs do not go to heaven. My dad has a dachshund from whom I am willfully estranged. It may be built like a furry limousine, but it has the disposition of a pit viper and the…
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America’s first centennial celebration on July 4, 1876 was a bit less enthusiastic than folks had hoped. It was marred by an event that happened nine days earlier in southern Montana when General George C. Custer led his Seventh Cavalry into an infamous foray at Little Big Horn.
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The South is no more “racist” than any other part of the country. This is a tiresome, yet persistent, lie. It may be that we get along better here…
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Weddings and funerals are two events that seem impervious to meticulous planning. They almost never go off without a hitch, and yet the end result still…
Those of you who have been subscribed for some time know that I usually write several pieces a week. However, I have been down sick most of the week…
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For most of my life, “self-care” basically meant making sure that I didn’t go hungry. To that end, I devoted a significant amount of energy to…
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In the summer of 2009, I was hired by a studio out of Mobile, AL to play piano on a couple country albums for these two brothers, Micky and Dickie as I…
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I suspect that few kinds of people spend more time poring over the dead than coroners, morticians, and southerners. But unlike the rest, southerners are…
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When I was a tyke, Papaw used to take me to a local watering hole called “Mamma B’s." Mamma B was a, shall I say, well-upholstered black woman who could…
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