Dirty Boots: Ugly Words for Ugly Thoughts

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 the 21st century. I’ve given up cussing for Lent. And, I’ll admit, I’m already doing a poor job of it. Cussing is about the only bad habit I have left. I quit chewing my fingernails a few years ago, after thirty years with my hands in my mouth, and teaching and parenting have caused me to curb other less-attractive predilections, like heavy drinking and outbursts… Read more Dirty Boots: Ugly Words for Ugly Thoughts →