In August 1969, Hurricane Camille devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  The destruction was unbelievable.  In some cases, shrimp boats we...

  A teacher at the Laurel Magnet School of the Arts and former winner of the Mississippi Educator of the Year, Landon Bryant is the creator ...

I’ve been delaying working on this for a few days.  Sometimes, what I have to say makes me uncomfortable. My father had eight children. Four...

For quite a while now, I’ve been collecting the urban legends that emanate from students and employees at the University of Mississippi Medi...

 Ken Stribling messaged me last night with corrections about a piece I wrote at 3:00 a.m.  What would I do without friends who can’t sleep e...

If I'm going to write about what happened in the sixties and early seventies, I feel like I need to be able to at least understand and a...

I’m working on a project.  I don’t know what to call it yet.  Part of it might be “Lies My Mother Never Told Me.”  For this project, I’ve ma...

Because I'm old, I take a diuretic to make sure my body doesn't retain water because my body works about as well as a 1982 Ford.  It...

Our mom's generation tells us about how they would put on starched cotton dresses with half a dozen petticoats and white kidd gloves and...

Because his life wasn't as full of so many personal tragedies as his friend Lewis, Tolkien never vacillated between belief and atheism a...

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

 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...

 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...

I've always had an affinity for primates.  Because I learned how to make websites early, I became weirdly famous for writing about King ...

 June is pride month.  I don't like the idea that we have to assign months where people can be proud of who they are.  That should be ev...

A lot of people find things they don't understand are intimidating.  It's a natural reaction.  If you don't know what's in a...

In 1935, a young actor named Humphrey Bogart (his real name) got his first starring role on Broadway in a play called "Petrified Fore...

 While the technique of pit cooking is pretty much universal, nearly every food historian posits that the origin of Barbeque is the Caribbea...

For many years, I studied Ayn Rand's Objectivism pretty closely. I saw her ideas, combined with libertarianism, as the solution to most ...