The Lil General convenience store shared a back parking lot with my grandmother’s apartment. Most days, I stopped in after school for my favorite snack – Doritos and a Mountain Dew. I was still blasting N.W.A. through my walkman causing a bolt...
It’s funny for it to be September, and for you to find yourself in the center of a Christmas decor aisle, but there I was, and boy was I feeling committed to it. I’d force my 2020 mood into submission if it was the very last thing I did. Mom’s...
“Fear” the emotion which Franklin D. Roosevelt declared is “the only thing we have to fear” has always been used as a political tactic. In fact, it is the favorite psychological tool of despots, dictators, religious cult leaders and self-proclaimed...
Their faces were blotchy and red, a mixture of the knife-slice cold of an Appalachia winter night and the exertion of hefting boxes of wrapped presents and fixings for the kind of white-trash Christmas dinner that they would never fathom serving...