Things my father told me:1. Never dance in the sun with butter on your head.2. It’s better to be well for a week than sick for a month.3. Eat every carrot and pea on your plate.4. She was the horseman’s daughter and all the horse men knew her.
Members of the ThinkTank Initiative Group, led by [...]
Spivey’s Corner Hollering Contest
Southerners use events to illustrate emotion and longing. Then they erect monuments to solidify the remembrance of the events.
I am very sorry to see you take such a well written summary of the Da Vinci code, and turn it into just another cheap attempt at backhanding those of us in the Christian faith.
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another of my columns about being southern from Popmatters, this one turned into a published piece on Spillway Review:*** Linton Weeks, in the Washington Post, claims that, by the mid-1970s, the "great run of Southern literature was coming to an end." The Fugitives and the Agrarians — movements in Southern literature — all dead. [...]
There are two “New Souths”. The urban New South consists of an area abounding in technological advances, politically correct industries, indoor plumbing, interstate highways, and movie theaters with more than two screens. The other New South, agricultural, insular, a landscape filled with satellite dishes and double-wide trailers, dirt roads and outhouses, this is where I live.
