While I went to college, I worked a few years as a firefighter for the City of Memphis. I learned many things there, but the biggest…
In high school, I worked at a grocery store after school. I worked from 4 to closing (which was 8 PM) during the week, and usually…
Often when reading a novel, I will find that if the author wants to indicate the smell of poverty, they will mention the smell of cooked…
I got asked a while back by a friend if I was going to talk about grits on my blog. If y’all thought cornbread was contentious,…
There have been times in my life when I knew a thing, innately, down in my bones, and yet I didn’t know it academically. Later, I…