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  • Throwback Thursday: Welcoming Chip

    It was two years ago this month that we welcomed the furriest member of our family, Chip. He wandered up to some friends’ house in…

  • Dirty Boots: Light always conquers darkness.

    Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of…

  • Poetry is not dead (in Alabama)

    As Christmas approaches, we’re entering the last weekend before the holiday itself, and here at the last minute, we might think of going to the…

  • #throwbackthursday: Even Santa Loves Grapico, 1915

    This ad for Grapico ran in The Times newspaper in Shreveport, Lousiana on this day, December 20, in 1915. Grapico was then a new product…