Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey’s life changed in Mississippi during ‘A Time...
My brother, W.G. Watkins, phoned me in August 1995. “A guy who’s going to be in the movie ’A Time to Kill’ just rented the lake house,” he said. “Who is it?” I asked. “He’s got a big part in it....
View ArticleTo the guy busting my chops at the gas station, you need to get happy.
On this day, it was cold… the kind of cold, freezing temperatures that we Southerners don’t get too often. The high temperature for the day was only gonna be in the upper 20’s, and there was snow on...
View ArticleThailand for beginners
Railay Beach East, Krabi Province, Thailand. Believe me, being “halfway around the world” is a difficult concept for a brain to take in. Or for my brain, at any rate. Yet there we were in Thailand,...
View ArticleThe need, desire, yearning, longing…the CRAVING for CRAWFISH!
The temperature’s getting warm enough for a light jacket, the daffodils are blooming everywhere filling the air with their soft, subtle perfume, and there’s an intense craving in my tummy that’s unlike...
View ArticleThe Best (and Worst) of Mississippi
The Friendship Oak, Long Beach Let’s start off at the bottom: Clarksdale is the worst place to live in Mississippi, followed by McComb and Yazoo City. Before you start yelling – or nodding your head,...
View ArticleO’ to be Irish for a day! St Paddy’s is for that weee bit o’ Irish in all of us.
Four leaf clovers, pots of gold at the end of rainbows, the wearing of anything green, Leprechauns, the Blarney Stone which legend says when kissed will give the power of persuasive speech, and some...
View ArticleThe Lasting Pain of Bullying
Tony then…. When Tony Best signed up for a shop class his freshman year of high school he was just looking for an easy ride, he says. Instead, “this was the beginning of the hell I was about to go...
View ArticleTwo Mississippi Docs Revolutionizing Digital Medicine for Patients
The “Hollywood” medpod… is it digital medicine of the future? You love it or hate it, embrace it or fear it, but technology is here to stay along with all the gadgets that go with it. It’s the scanners...
View ArticleSpring Training? Bet on It!
Ah, spring. A reminder of the resurgent wonders of nature, the pastoral beauty of baseball, the folly of gambling. Let me explain. For some years now I’ve taken an annual spring training baseball trip...
View ArticleBuddy Brown: More than a country singer, iTunes chart buster to me
Few stories have brought me more joy to research and write than the one in Monday’s editions of The Clarion-Ledger. If you missed it or want to read it again, click here. It profiled Buddy Brown, a...
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