Miss Betsy's Tee-Tiny Tennessee Kitchen

Ralph Nantel was what was once known as a "character". He was the hired man at the Alfred Smith farm on the Unity Stage Road in ...

I have been collecting more examples of words, phrases, and usages that I consider "Southernese". I wrote a post about this in the...

A great line from Auden's great poem "The Two". Who among us does not daydream? When I remember Auden's line I think ...

Perhaps it is our economy, perhaps a lack of audacity, but our Nashville garden centers seem tired. They sell the same old things. In other ...

I cannot post a picture of my new camera, a Canon Powershot,because cameras are not yet able to take pictures of themselves. My best friend ...

A few years back, at the Catholic hospital I worked at, the Money Men (those CEO gunslingers who had replaced the Sisters as administrators)...

Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher, had an idea for a prison where guards from one vantage point could see all their prisoners all the t...