I wanted to take a moment to thank you for visiting my site. This is something that I feel is long past due. I sincerely hope that you gain something from your time reading my words. I enjoy writing these essays and it helps to know that I have an audience out there. I am […]
“Tis the season,” that’s what they say! The time of the year to be Jolly, I believe is how it goes. The time to look back and reflect. Time to evaluate, to be thankful, and time to remember all of the good things that came our way over the last three hundred and some odd […]
In an effort to be fill in gaps between my “hybrid” posts; stories that don’t meet the definition of blog posts, but don’t meet the definition of short stories either, I think I will begin to try to do some true blog posts for the next little while. Just as an experiment. I had some […]
I am taking a break from what has become a line of deep offerings from yours truly to bring a more traditional “blog” post. Truthfully, I’m a fan of deep thought and prefer the challenge of writing from that point-of-view, but there are times when the white noise and the static of everyday life just […]
Lately, music has been the primary motivation for the lines that I compose and share. Today I am not veering from the path in that respect. I mean, I’m from Mississippi, the birthplace of some of the most significant music and performers to have ever pressed lips to a microphone, set pencil to paper in […]
The feature image above is Skylynn Coker from Springville, Alabama, taken by her grandfather, Chris Coker, of Springville, Alabama, formerly of Columbia, Mississippi. Skylynn is 4 years old. I have a myriad of ideas floating around in my head in which to write. Ideas can come from many places, maybe something I hear, something […]
Almost anyone over a certain age easily recognizes an Eagles Album cover. Back in the day, we all went down to Columbia Sounds (Columbia, Mississippi, OR the record store in your town) and purchased a copy. For those born too late to have vinyl as your only option, well, you may have missed out […]
There is a question that is posed from time to time and depending on the verbiage of said question, it is one in which the answer affords the possibility of a simple yes or no, or, a volume as thick as War and Peace. I pondered the question the other day as the discussion began […]
This blog stuff, as totally lame as it may seem to some of you, has been a great deal of fun for me. You will probably never know the hesitation I experienced before hitting the enter key to publish my own words for the first time. I think many of you know that I post […]
I tend to get a bit wordy in my posts here, which I realize goes against the norms of the day and time in which we live. Except for certain circumstances, everything I put to text will be in sentence form, with at least an attempt to make it grammatically correct, and free of abbreviations. […]