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...

Private schools take little interest in controversial text Clarion Ledger Thursday, January 22, 1981 By NELL LUTER - FOCUS Writer  Jackson...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 In 1940, Governor Paul Johnson pushed for a change to the Mississippi code to allow for the state to pay for free textbooks for Mississippi...

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...