Dirty Boots: The Grandma in the Louisiana KFC

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. When I was child in the early 1980s, my family drove across the country to see my uncle in Phoenix, Arizona. We left Alabama one summer morning, and our first stop was for lunch at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Louisiana. Behind us in line was a grandmother with probably half-dozen children around my age. After we ordered and sat down… Read more Dirty Boots: The Grandma in the Louisiana KFC →