Southern Experience

Ferguson: Using Your Head for More Than a Hat Rack

A humorous reflection on boneheaded mistakes, hard-earned wisdom, humility, and learning to put others ahead of ourselves in everyday life.
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No Time 2 Cook Recipe of the Week: Milky Way Pound Cake

Milky Way Pound Cake is one of my favorite cakes. Serve it warm on a cold day with a glass of milk or a...

No Time 2 Cook Recipe of the Week: Milky Way Pound Cake

Milky Way Pound Cake is one of my favorite cakes. Serve it warm on a cold day with a glass of milk or a...

What Makes Southerners Different? We Have a Culture of Our Very Own

How different are Southerners? It was in New York City in the early days of my yankee imprisonment that I first caught on to...

10 Things You Miss When You Move Away from the Deep South

Life in Mississippi has been compared to many things: a quilt, a gumbo, fabric. I think of it as a cobbler. One cannot find it...

Reflections: Growing up in a Church

I remember growing up, going to the First Methodist Church of Amory, Mississippi. This was, and still is, one of the most beautiful churches...

Mississippi Quote of the Day: Walker Percy Looks You Straight in the Eye

Walker Percy's "Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book," is easily the funniest - and perhaps the most genuinely insightful and provocative -...

Top Stories of 2017: The Story Behind Beloved "Heart of Ole Miss" Poem

The man who penned “The Heart of Ole Miss,” the beloved and oft-quoted poem about the University of Mississippi, initially thought so little of...

Top Stories of 2017: Finding Mr. Kinney in the Mississippi Delta

While on a work-related trip to Cleveland, Miss. one day, I dined at the Starving Musician’s Bakery, stopped in at the bank and later...

Top Stories of 2017: How Much Pizza Is Too Much Pizza?

With at least 15 restaurants serving delicious pizza, we decided to find out if Oxford has enough pizza lovers to pay for all that...

Top Stories of 2017: In Praise of Oxford's Chicken-on-a-Stick

Move over, Mr. Bill (Faulkner). Oxford’s literary fame around the world may take a back seat to its chicken-on-a-stick. The late-night delicacy of the Chevron...
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