Part I: Conversation with a Black Friend I live in peaceful and friendly North Carolina—just outside of Charlotte, in the hoping-to-stay-a small town of Cornelius. Been here five years. The… Read more Racism: A Riddle, Wrapped in A Mystery, Inside an Enigma →
Sandy and I were drinking Mother’s Day Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee on our patio on a beautifully cool-for-June North Carolina early on June morning—our two Brittanys at our feet. I said… Read more “Go go back to your office and write.” →
The Round Dinny Trip Since my last story, let’s jump ahead—over many more yearly trips on the Escatawpa with Daddy. Past high Semmes High School and even past Auburn—to somewhere… Read more Stories of the Escatawpa →
Over the last couple of weeks of the quarantine, it has become increasingly clear to me (as if it took a pandemic to make it any clearer) that we humans,… Read more Hair in Time of Quarantine →
Alright, I freely admit that I do not wash the family clothes as often as my wife and certainly as often as I should. But after all, there are all those dainty lady-things that I could mess up and face the penalty of being banned from the bedchamber. ………. Thank you to all my wonderful mother-wife-friends who let me know about all those commercial products that 100% of the time will remove stains from bacon grease to motor oil. I know about those … well, generally, at least. Around our house,… Read more In Defense of Men →
As I used to do with brand new neckties, I now do with my favorite shirts. I think you know where I am going here. That of never eating a meal without getting a grease spot on a shirt or pair of pants—that is me! Or at least it was me, until last week. For the longest time, I have pondered on why those greasy spots on my shirts defy all efforts to clean them. I pretreat them the same night I soil them. Yes, I know about pretreating. Works sometimes.… Read more No More Grease Spots! →
Citizens in many states have recently rallied together to protest the stay-at-home orders issued by their state governors. I have watched as protestors allege that the government has no right… Read more The U.S. Constitution in Time of Crisis →
