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It’s Pronounced Miz
I noticed on the Facebook page for Occupy Mississippi that there was a lot of calling folks Miss Insert First Name Here. We need to talk about that. Okay, first? Not a fan. There are like five people...
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Your Assignment For The Weekend
Y’all marinate on these two things over the weekend. 1. I was talking to my friend Jessica and we were saying we both had deviled egg trays, but both HATED deviled eggs. Into what could one’s deviled...
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A Thing
If you’re not familiar with Like The Dew, go over there now. They’re good people doing good things. Plus, they let me write things for them. Which is fun because The Dew has, with the exception of this...
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The Hypocrisy of Polenta
My friend Des is a Southerner stuck in Chicago for twenty years now. It happens. He pines for, well, pines. Specifically the Piney Woods of Mississippi where we grew up. I periodically remind him about...
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Y’all
How long has y’all been global? I just came upon two instances where y’all was used in a non-Southern specific context and it got me thinking. NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Facebook page used it. A new...
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Pandora And The GPS Lady Walk Into A Bar…
Pandora: (Slugs back a dry martini and sucks on a Camel Light) Finally! A bar where you can smoke! How did you find this place? GPS Lady: (Orders a cosmo) I know my way around pretty well. I just...
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Sucking The Life Out Of The Holidays
You know how you think your family is crazy? You’re right. They are. You are the only sane one and you’re pushing the rock of sagacity uphill. Both ways. In the snow. Give in. Just give in. There’s a...
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As I Was Saying…
Yeah, so didn’t make it back quite in the time frame I imagined. I’m just not going to get into why because it’s really just not that interesting. I mean, I know I’m not generally interesting anyway,...
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The Bucket Shrub
My husband found four shrubs and a palm tree by the side of the road. Well, it’s not really a palm. It’s some kind of giant fern with a weird (PORN NAME ALERT!) hairy trunk. And it’s like four feet...
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Problems Sister and Stella-Rondo Never Had
I would like to take this day behind the barn and dispatch with it swiftly. I had to go to the post office. TWO post offices (posts office?), in fact. The first one was to pick up a package. See, what...
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