Sirens have been going off all day off & on. It's a sound that at this point, it seems to be the background music for spring weekends. They started early in the morning, kept lots of folks awake most of the night. somehow I made it back to sleep (the word exhaustion comes to mind). Last … [Read more...]
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Thinking About Pit Bulls & Living in Memphis
This week, I stumbled upon a simple tweet from one of the folks I've chatted with about all things Southern, especially his former hometown of New Orleans. And with NOLA means we've talked food. On Wednesday I saw this short tweet pop up: #AKC: Memphis City Council to Require all Pit bulls be … [Read more...]
Memphis’ Own Cooper-Young Festival
It's a chance to relax.... Listen to some good tunes (we heard Will Tucker and God only knows who else)... Grab a bite to eat (we picked the opulence crepe and later shared a funnelcake with my neice)... What I love most is it is Memphis through and through. The vibe you get. The people you meet. … [Read more...]
Tell Me…. Would you knock on the door?
One night, years ago, just six months or so since I'd begun living in the Mississippi Delta keeps coming to mind for me. It's tangled up with the reality that a friend once lived in the hundreds of terrace streets in Kansas City. And that I've been lost in areas of the country where my phone failed … [Read more...]
Observing Martin Luther King Day Way Before It was a National Holiday
Do you remember having elementary school programs as a kid where everyone would be in the auditorium or cafeteria to observe a day? I remember a few of those, pretty sketchy on the actual memories, but one program from elementary school really strikes me. I mean the memories are still a bit … [Read more...]
Lots of Differences from One Grocery Store to Another
We all have these connections to grocery stores that we rarely even think about. Whether you love them or hate them or, like most people, fall somewhere in the middle, we all have some opinion. For me, grocery stores have always been a touchstone of sorts. You Learn A Lot from a Grocery Visit I … [Read more...]
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