Why did I write The Intangibles? The first motivation was that I wanted to communicate what it was really like in the South when schools were integrated. In the midst of problems we face as a society today, I wanted to provide some perspective into the times that molded the parents – and even the …
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Latest Tale of the Wild, Wild South
I do a lot of sighing lately. It’s against the law, at least in most places, to smoke in bars. I’m okay with that. There’s a part of me that thinks it’s sort of strange that, in a place people come to drink, they can’t smoke. I’m sort of a “life is fatal” adherent. I …
Greatness Does Not Require Perfection
Nelson Mandela is dead. That’s okay. He was 95. He lived a legend, transformed a country, spent 27 years in a prison and emerged triumphant from it all. There’s no need for undue sorrow. Nor is their need for undue bigotry. A South Carolina sheriff refused to lower the American flag to half mast because, …
Nightrider's Lament 