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...

  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 ...

When I was a boy, I heard the story of the fox who chewed his own leg off when it was caught in a trap.  I have no idea if this ever actuall...

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...

Every once in a while, somebody will say, "yeah, Boyd, but which one did you love the most?  There were a lot of them, but which one do...

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...

 Here on the front end of sixty, here is the tally on my experience with guns: A few dead deer.  Several dead ducks and doves.  A few dead s...

My wife and I used to argue because she thought my version of her was a lot more optimistic than what she saw in herself.  I think one of th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

Greenlights  My dear friend (and former football trainer) gave me a copy of Greenlights  by Matthew McConaughey.  I met McConaughey briefly ...

I'm not psychic by any means, but I am empathetic. It's not that I can always tell what other people feel, but I almost always feel...

I went by Target today because, although disillusioned long ago, I'm still fascinated by marketing and store design and when it comes to...

As a lot of you may know, Millsaps is going through some turmoil right now. This is pretty hard for me because Millsaps was always part of ...