Because my father preferred going to the early morning service, and he preferred to sit in the choir loft of the chapel, we used to joke tha...

I was still very young when we moved from Northside Drive to Honeysuckle Lane.  My sister only lived in the old house a few months before we...

How many books does it take to be considered "well-read?"  I'll go to my grave, considering myself just the opposite.  Part of...

 We bring them home.  We raise them up.  We fill them up with as much spirit and love and learning as we can possibly find.  One day, you re...

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...

 In 1978 I was fifteen years old.  It was the first year I ever fully experienced the darkness inside me.  My family fought through an extra...

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...

I always felt like being an introvert like I am was such a disappointment to everybody, particularly my mother.  She tried so hard to get me...

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...

 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...

My friends are very bright.  They teach me things all the time.  I learned a new word the other day.  A “Rainbow Baby” is a child born after...

 When I was very little, I was always the first one awake, the first one out of bed and out of my room.  I got to turn the coffee pot on and...

 1985.  Ruben Anderson is appointed to the Mississippi State Supreme Court.  My dad decided to have a dinner party in his honor.  My dad was...

 I was probably ten years old when I fully understood that it was my Uncle Tom who made the newspaper.  I was probably twenty years old befo...