How often have you heard that we lived in simpler times? When people my age say it, they’re often forgetting the Cold War, the culture war,...

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...

In high school, my very favorite person was named Paige.  She had joined our tight-knit little class pretty late along the way but fit in re...

I used to spend time with this lady from New Orleans, whom everyone called VooDoo.  I should have taken that as a warning, but I didn't....

Sometimes, I lose control of my stories.  Earlier today, I tried to write down how this girl once spent several minutes slapping and punchin...

In the years since I realized she was being silly, maybe even neurotic.  It had me plenty worried at the time, though.  In the summer betwee...

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...

 When Lance Goss held auditions for a new play, it was his custom to tell the story of the play briefly for the students wishing to audition...

 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...

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...

I became a bully.  I didn’t mean to.  I didn’t want to.  I think it happened because I didn’t do enough to make sure it didn’t happen.  I le...

People talk about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and how the South converted from Yellow-dog Democrats to the world’s most conservative Republi...

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...