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May 2014

May 29, 2014

Elliot Rodger’s Right

I have been sitting here in silence. Silence broken by birds chirping, dogs barking...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Fred Phelps: Life of Fear

I'm not proud of it but there have been people I have hated in my...

December 2013

December 29, 2013

Beneath the Rising Jesus

Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning....

December 07, 2013

Rent-a-parent for the Holidays

My mother loved Christmas. She made a big fuss over it every year. As daughter...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

It’s My Birthday

It's my birthday. The very first in my life without the woman who birthed me....

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Tribe of Blood Kin

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” ― Maya Angelou They told him he has...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Poverty of a different sort

Never once when I was growing up, not even when I was a young adult,...

July 12, 2013

Tramp for the Lord

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be...

July 02, 2013

Praying for Prescott

My daughter spent a couple of summers on a firefighting crew. I'll be honest,...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Pilgrimage to the Motherland

I took a drive back up in the holler. I wasn't sure were I was...

May 21, 2013

Looking Up Instead of Ahead

You don't know how strong you are until strong is your only choice. You don't...

March 2013

March 24, 2013

The Rancher’s Wife

She leans back in the recliner, her legs, dressed in powder blue slacks, stretch...

February 2013

February 03, 2013

We’d All Be Lunatics

Writing, for me, is a form of praying. I often think of John 1:1: In the...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

A Tupperware Coffin

Mama ordered a $10 plastic urn. The nit-pickiest woman on planet earth - the...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Getting Mama Ready

In 1966, when we got word of my father’s death, it was my brother’s...

December 20, 2012

I wish the Mayans were right

For the past four months it has felt like somebody pushed my head underwater into...

December 10, 2012

When I lay dying, read me Flannery

When I am dying do not read to me books of heaven and the people...

December 09, 2012

Suicide & the Code of Silence

"Nobody commits suicide because they want to die - They just want to stop the...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Mother Steel & Marlo Thomas

I worry that we have only changed out addictions. Traded in the packs of...

October 2012

October 02, 2012

Praying for Miracles

Back in my reporting days I did a story about miracles and the people...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Death’s Long-Shadow

Irony is the long-shadow of death. It is early morning yet. I have just administered...

August 2012

August 12, 2012

A Biscuit & Black Coffee Run

Mama is sitting at the edge of her bed eating a biscuit with jam and...

June 2012

June 23, 2012

Memories of The Redhead: Mama was a Dancing Woman

I have been praying for a redhead grandson. My daughter says that's a weird prayer....

May 2012

May 23, 2012

Doing the Ugly Cry

Ms. Terry wants everybody to know one thing: "I may not be the happiest person...

December 2011

December 20, 2011

Who’s Sorry Now?

The government of North Korea released video of its people grieving the death of Kim...

October 2011

October 22, 2011

Unpacking the Headcase

There are a couple of images I can't get out of my head this week....

October 19, 2011

Prayers for Eleanor & family

I consider this blog a community and I hope you do as well. So it...

August 2011

August 08, 2011

Holler of the Holies: The Hillbilly's Sanctuary

My buddy Gordon took this photo on April 16, 2007. I know the date because...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

In these tears

For Zane's family... and friends... Because in the flood of grief, we need the reassurance.

June 2011

June 25, 2011

Memories of The Redhead: Mama was a Dancing Woman

It has been two years. Four days. 23 hours and 37 minutes, give or take a...

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