It’s Lonely in the Middle
In the 1930s, President Herbert Hoover’s second-in-command was Vice President Charles Curtis, who had once been a powerful Senator. A magazine article about Vice President Curtis is credited with coining… Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2022
“Chattanooga Tom” Phillips: Remembering the happiest voice on the radio
“Chattanooga Tom” Phillips has died at the age of 67, following a lengthy bout with cancer. He was a proud native of Dalton, GA, and was a huge fan of… Read more »
Missing the Magic of the Movies
In my neck of the woods, regular gasoline can be purchased at the low, low price of about $2.40 a gallon at this writing. At various times, I have expressed… Read more »
Sharing Our Southern Wisdom
I know some of you expect hard-hitting political commentary when reading a newspaper column. Well, not today. There are no elections any time soon, and we could all use… Read more »
Truly Drunker than Cooter Brown
I’m quite proud of my rural upbringing in a country store in Bryant, Alabama. We had only one school, one restaurant, and no traffic lights. We used to grow cotton,… Read more »
I Have Questions
We’re advanced enough to send rockets to the moon (again), so why can’t we answer these questions: If it’s neither here nor there, then where is it exactly? Why can’t… Read more »
