The Planet’s Best Coping Mechanism
Life can be hard even when it's good. Amen? People adopt various and sundry ways of dealing with daily stress. Some coping mechanisms are healthy, others not so much. Who among us doesn't know someone who is ruining his or her life by trying to calm their souls with drugs and alcohol? Other coping mechanisms are just downright strange. I fell down an Internet hole earlier by
This Book is Unlike Any Other
"But, it's all touching!" The woeful complaint came from my friend's son. Bless his six-year-old heart. From where I sat it looked like his mother had done a good job of segregating the food on Welton's plate, but I sympathized with the little fellow's distress. I never could make my parents understand that it was impossible to redeem my fast food hamburger by simply removing
Topping Off Your Tank
My parents are big on the importance of keeping a vehicle’s gas tank as close to full as possible. Maybe it’s because they’ve always lived in the country where there isn’t a gas station on every corner, or any corner for that matter. Maybe it’s a generational thing, but to their way of thinking, when the needle gets anywhere around the half-way mark you’re running on
A Different Kind of Food Chain
The demands of All Things Southern require me to keep a pretty consistent schedule. Dixie Belle knows this to-do list inside and out. If I leave by the front door early in the morning, she knows I’m going for a walk. Should I exit through the back porch, she knows that it’s kayak time and the old girl starts fretting immediately. Dixie takes her security
Spotting the Mighty Eagles of Lake Providence, LA
We’ve had people in town tell us about a pair of eagles that have made our lake their home and I’ve seen cell phone pictures others have captured, but until recently, it was just that, hearsay. Then we saw him for ourselves, this mighty bird with the wing span for days! And can I just say, “Wow!” It was Easter Sunday. He landed high atop a
Elvis the Egret Hits the Jackpot
I was watching a flock of egret fish for shad along the lake bank when I saw him. He wasn’t unique in appearance, same white feathers, same spindly legs, and beady eyes. It’s just that I happened to glance his way right about the time he hit the jackpot, struck pay-dirt if you will. While his buddies munched on two-inch shad, Elvis the Egret was
Savoring as an Art Form!
What do you get when you bake chocolate muffins, top them with small mountains of peanut butter mousse frosting, and cool them in the fridge, before dipping them upside down into the type of melted hot chocolate that forms a hard shell over that melt in your mouth icing? Answer: Very, happy, All Things Southern baby czars, wired for sound. I’m pretty sure my daughter
Whoever heard of a Pastimony?
Hey y'all! About to hit the road again. I'll be in Denham Springs, LA tonight at Cavalier House Books from six until ten talking about Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On and Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy! Hope you'll join us if you're within range. :) Right now, however, I wanted to share some words from my morning Bible study that I'm taking
What do you want out of 2012?
I've been writing this post in my head for some time. For the record, it was much easier up there. Now that I have keys under my fingers, I'm discovering that I can't stop hitting the delete button. I keep erasing everything and starting over. Not completely sure what that's all about, but here's what I suspect. I'm intimidated. I don't have time to write a long, beautifully