This post was written with the express permission of the querent. On Saturday, April 15th, 2023, we held a gender reveal party for my daughter and son-in-law. This being Mississippi, the gathered crowd waited anxiously within the gated pool area as my son-in-law carefully aimed. He screamed, “Cover y’ears!” and pulled the trigger. A second […]
I generally try to keep my harsher opinions to myself. Every now and again, I slip. A few weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court rescinded its decades-long support of the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, which granted legal access to abortion services across the United States. I was making a small repair in one […]
Well, it finally happened. After over one hundred twenty years, the official flag of the state of Mississippi will be changed. I should be overjoyed since I have been a proponent of this change for many years, but I’m not. Not now. Not this way. For those not in the know, the Mississippi state flag […]
Wife and I were taking a night out on the town to celebrate our twenty-first anniversary. We had chosen one of the three nice restaurants that we have in town. It was not a difficult decision. One of the places likes to push the coat issue, and our anniversary is in June. I am not […]
Mississippi has a long history of doing things its own way, and we have been the butt of many jokes because of it. I used to resent the jokes because so many people do not know what it is like to live in Mississippi, what it means to be a Mississippian. Now, however, even I […]
Southern Christianity, in my experience, is quite fundamentalist (or Fundamentalist, if you prefer) in its outlook, and though I might wish that I could say that these beliefs are foreign to me, they are not. I was reared in the church, the Southern protestant church, that is, yet over the years, I have come to […]
The Tarot King of Mississippi