Monthly Archives: September 2010

Twisted Sister

September 30, 2010
Twisted Sister

When you grow up in the South, you get accustomed to hot weather. Extreme humidity, clothes sticking to you from the moment you wake up until the sun sinks underneath the horizon, you look forward to October. Heck, you look forward to January, which is probably hard for those of you from the Midwest or the New England area to imagine. Prior to moving here, I thought the Midwest was the land of moderate summers. Aside from one or two lackluster ones, I was sorely mistaken. You see, while the humidity may not be anywhere near the stifling heat of the South, it is still nice and toasty here in the Windy City. The difference, is that here in the Midwest, we have Fall. And whoa Nelly, I do love me some Fall, but I’m not quite ready for it. I’m not ready to wear a jacket, to put...

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Kiss My Grits

September 26, 2010
Kiss My Grits

As it turns out, my pops was going green long before any of us were toting our own recyclable bags to the grocery store or biking to work. When we were wee little tikes, he had a job requiring a commute of about an hour or two (yes, even in the rural South), and he and one of his best friends, ‘Mr. Donald’, carpooled. Come summertime, my brother and I would hop, sluggishly, into the cab seats of pops’ 1985 Nissan pickup promptly at 6 am, and off to gramma’s we went for the day. Getting up with the roosters’ crows was not something I looked forward to, but going to gramma’s certainly was. The commute wasn’t bad, either. My pops let me get coffee from the corner store on most days, but every so often we’d skip the corner store and stop further along, near Skinners Bypass, to...

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The Gut Buster

Eating good, healthy food is an admirable goal. It’s a really good goal. Sometimes though, it’s just. so. dang. hard. Ya feel me? Exhibit...

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