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Tag Archives: Alabama
The End of Mystery
We want to know everything. We want all the answers. We skip to the end of the book, we FF through the movie, we dip our fingers in the cake batter and taste the salmonella. We suck the whip cream … Continue reading →
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Freshman Year With Bernie
Bernie Madoff, the money guy accused of Ponzi scheming the rich and famous, went to the University of Alabama in the 1950?s. I don?t think my alma mater will be using this tidbit in the recruiting brochures or touting it … Continue reading →
You Can’t Hide Your Possum Eyes
Walking deep in the woods on a whispery warm day in December, a carpet of pine straw cushion crunches below, sap blows in the air, not a deadline in sight. Out here there is no bad news by the minute, … Continue reading →
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Noodling and Shaking
Recently, I have been talking to people about Southern proclivities that fall outside regional categorization. Noodling, for instance. Tweet This Post
What I Got For Christmas: Fire Ants
I have written about fire ants before. But things have changed in the South. Call it global warming. Call it a fire ant invasion. Call it an environmental rash, whatever. I have experienced fire ants up close all of my … Continue reading →
This Year, I Was The Fat Man. Again.
Many years ago when my nephew (now in his early thirties) was a child, I did something so stupid it has attached itself to me like a permanent holiday appendage: I wrangled a Santa suit and scared him so badly, … Continue reading →
Barbecued Karma
Huey, the spare rib genius, was half past drunk when I parked the Ford in the woods. Barbecue sauce smeared the front of his undershirt like a culinary wound. Chargrilled air flowed through the sweet gum. A man stepped … Continue reading →
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Redneck Environmentalist
He didn’t know it, but my grandfather was an ‘environmentalist’ long before the terminology was popular. He was also a ‘redneck’ before the term was hijacked to the dark side. Forgive me, Mr. Foxworthy, but everyone was technically a redneck … Continue reading →
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Lightning Rod
I heard his altered muffler coming before I saw him. It was a glasspack. Instead of a 442 Olds or a 357 Chevy, however, it was a hand-painted yellow van, the sides proclaiming “Don’t mess with God, call Lightning Rod.” … Continue reading →
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Blueberries and Huckleberries
A while back, in my mother’s backyard in Alabama, I got into a conversation with several elderly Southern women about the difference between blueberries and huckleberries. I found out more than I cared to know about both berries. So did … Continue reading →
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Sopping News In The Biscuit Biz
By the time you read this, White Lilly Flour, made in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee since 1883, will cease to be manufactured in the South and will instead be made somewhere in the midwest. To understand the consequences of this situation, … Continue reading →
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Sometimes You Just Have To Lie
I had stopped by, as I often do, to check on her since she was ninety-six years old and had started drinking again after fifty-eight years of sobriety. The small figurine that had stood erect for seventy-eight of those ninety-six … Continue reading →
Traveling
Fred and I are driving through the South. We flew through it earlier. AirTran to Atlanta, a Hertz stop and we’re on our way. We hit a few new business fishing holes and stopped in Chattanooga, TN. Going to Chattanooga … Continue reading →
Pickled Irony
Maybe contradiction is the religion of the South but irony is its daily bread. Yesterday, several of us sat outside, enjoying the cool sunshine of a sidewalk café beside Richmond’s Main Street in the lowest part of the geographic bowl … Continue reading →
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Down Here
I’ve known genteel Southerners with perfect teeth and beautiful skin. I’ve seen them at the country club (while I was doing manual labor) and read about them in books and magazines. I’ve mowed their yards and painted their houses and … Continue reading →