My friend, Alex Riggle, has a wonderful blog called “The Onion Dome.” His daily posts about the saints are filled…
I spent a good bit of yesterday writing. I really did. Several hours with butt in chair working on novel…
I love the AT&T commercials featuring Beck Bennett and those cute little kids. I don’t know how much is scripted…
In the Orthodox Church, Jesus and the saints aren’t the only ones who have special “feast days” in which…
I’m writing this post from Broadstreet Bakery, (their cheese grits rock) just downstairs from Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi. I…
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed—best-selling author of a memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,…
On page 4A of today’s Memphis Commercial Appeal, there’s a shocking article about domestic violence written by Maria Chang, AP…
Unusual. Odd. Offbeat. Those are words that Don Noble used in his review of Wendy Reed’s new book, An Accidental…
Every May and June, millions of people are faced with yet another intrusion into our personal lives by the marketing…
43 years ago (yesterday) I married Bill Cushman at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi. We had 17…