Category Archives: South

BBQ, Rain, Mud, Wrecks and Rednecks (Part 2)

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Terry Taylor

The dirt track hugs wooden bleachers angling up about 25 feet into the damp Shenandoah wind. A man in a camo gimme cap with a belly big enough to have swallowed a small child chugs by wearing a painted-on-tight t-shirt, … Continue reading →

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BBQ, Rain, Mud, Wrecks and Rednecks (Part 1)

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Terry Taylor

I’ll get this out of the way right up front: I grew up in LA (meaning Lower Alabama). So when I speak of rednecks, it is not with disdain, but affection. I have changed a lot over the years since … Continue reading →

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Late For Class

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Gridlocked traffic snakes through downtown Richmond. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s dual guitars rip into “Saturday Night Special.” It’s 8 A.M. and already 90 degrees with humidity thick enough to choke a 12-pound bass. The sky is cooked milky white. This is the … Continue reading →

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It’s Hot as Hell and I Am Not In Key West Anymore

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Humidity chokes me as if a hot towel is wrapped around my head. It is too hot to write. Once the temperature pops 100º, my keyboard begins to reject my fingers, or perhaps it is the other way around. Above … Continue reading →

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Key West Conversations: Haint Blue

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Terry Taylor

The porch straining across the front of the old house on Elizabeth Street in Key West was painted Haint Blue. My aunt’s house had a large porch with a ceiling painted Haint Blue as well. My grandfather talked about haints … Continue reading →

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Key West Conversations: Damned Good Liars

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Terry Taylor

It took less than fifteen minutes to realize I had found a place that fit a part of me that I have kept prisoner under the guise of corporate bullshit for 30 years. I was still in the cab when … Continue reading →

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Conversations from Key West

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Scribbled on an AirTran barf bag are these words: “Below me, the Atlantic meats the Gulf of Mexico, blending in shades of Galaxie 500 peacock blue, luminescent aqua and deep cobalt surrounding the last island in the Florida Keys. Scabs … Continue reading →

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Auburn, Oaks and Idiots

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Terry Taylor

First let me say that I am glad that no alumni of my alma mater, the University of Alabama, poisoned those two oaks at Toomer’s Corner in Auburn last week. Something so despicable just goes to show how ugly this … Continue reading →

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No Reindeer Were Harmed In the Writing of This Story

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Terry Taylor

South Alabama, between Mobile and Dothan and north of Pensacola, is a rural place filled with deer, rabbits, alligators, foxes, squirrels, bobcats, panthers and even an off-course bear or two. There are no reindeer. Not officially. This fact never stopped … Continue reading →

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Winter’s Bone

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Terry Taylor

If you have ever lived in certain parts of the South for any length of time, spend two hours watching this movie. If you have never lived down here, spend those same two hours getting acquainted with the landscape.

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