Reprinted from Clarion Ledger Jackson MS April 19, 1962 Ancient Bones Give View Of Past To Digging Crew  Workers digging at the Pearl River ...

 Authors' suit charges racial bias in history book By CHAT BLAKEMAN Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Tue, August 29, 1979 Is a ninth-grade cl...

 Tomorrow's story for the Eudora Welty reading group is "A Visit of Charity" from "A Curtain of Green."  The story i...

 Some of the best students of literature and history I ever met were electricians and plumbers in the daytime.  Some of the best carpenters ...

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...

This project that I’m calling “Lies My Mother Never Told Me” has been openly banging around in my head for about a year and a half now.   Qu...

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...

Last night my friend Tom messaged me that Morgan Freeman was giving a lecture at Millsaps in a movie.  “The Ritual Killer,” now streaming on...

There was no Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame for the first half of my life. The Jackson Touchdown Club met once a year in the ballroom of th...

 The governor came to church today.  It’s good for the church when he comes, and it’s good for him when he comes, and I don’t mean political...

Sometimes I run into people who, even if we never interacted so much before, my life and theirs intertwine like the roots of two trees in th...

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...

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...