In the larger world, we talk about the baby boom generation, generation x, and millennials.  In Mississippi, there's only one generation...

Ellen Ann Fentress has a really cool project where she's illuminating the histories of Mississippians who attended the many "segreg...

It's my hope that I can show you more than I tell you in my book, but since these are imaginary people, I have to decide what to tell yo...

Since the action of my book takes place around a college production of Mid Summers Night Dream, I'm thinking of calling it "What Fo...

I'm not yet ready to bury my past.  You'd be surprised how rarely people ask if I'm ready for anything.  Me being ready or not, ...

Mississippi never leads nor follows.  It intensifies whatever fears and prejudices are already present in the larger society as if to say, ...

For my writing workshop today, we were assigned to bring in photo prompts for some free writing.  I have a folder on my phone of a couple hu...

Every coeducational college in the world secretly has a problem with rape.  They do a much better job now of educating the community about t...

I'm trying something different with my journal.  I can tell how many people read, so if nobody reads these, I'll go back to just kee...

In my quest to cut down on carbs and calories, I decided to try Skinny Pasta.  It comes in a bag, pre-cooked that you strain, then heat in t...

While I haven't actually been asked to do this, I'm constantly trying to defend my novel, at least to myself.  Why is it worth writi...

Roasted Red Pepper Filet Mignon with Tortellini Primavera & Lemon Garlic Butter This is a really good one.  They charge an extra $9, but...

My parents worked pretty hard to instill several important lessons in me.  Some I picked up on better than others.  One was that I should al...

 In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, Scrooges in Jackson was as close to Cheers as you'll find.  They even had a plaque from the guy who owned the...

  Summer Squash Medley with Pimento Cheese & Roasted Asparagus This is one of my favorite meals yet, and check out the 120 calories.  It...

 Mushroom, Tomato & Goat Cheese Cavatappi with Herb-Roasted Zucchini Tonight's meal is a meatless selection from Factor 75.  It’s ve...

 Nero ruled Rome from 54 to 68.  For those of us born in the sixties, that's quite a number.  He was generally considered a horrible per...

Sun-Dried Tomato Chicken Fusilli with Italian Herb-Roasted Zucchini One thing I've noticed about the Factor 75 foods is they really like...

 Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are big fans of the idea that a "good guy with a gun" is all you need to solve the problem of "ba...

It’s been about a year since I started letting the world read my daily journals or significant parts of them.  I began writing them forty-fi...

 This is my first meal with the Factor75 program. The meals come cold but unfrozen in a box, a week's worth at a time. I chose the “calo...

 In Lee: The Last Years, Flood quotes one of the "KA Five" as saying of Lee that "We likened him unto Agamemnon."  I alw...

 For guys in my dad’s generation, for those who were also from here, there wasn’t much more impressive than an airplane.  Some, like his cou...

 Last night on the news, they interviewed a woman who had a fire in her neighborhood, but the Firemen couldn’t find the hydrant, and when th...

 Through my association with Kappa Alpha Order, I’ve been given or otherwise accumulated five portraits of Robert E. Lee.  As per KA traditi...