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I remember where I was when I heard Elvis Presley had died, which puts me into that dwindling group of people who recall life when a living, breathing King walked among us. I was only 12 years old, but I remember. I remember because my mother cried. I remember we were visiting Grandmother Caldwell and… Continue reading Should you see the new movie ‘Elvis?’

This morning as I was drinking my cup of coffee, I was doing my Saturday morning ritual of looking around the house at everything that needed to be cleaned or dusted. The blinds needed dusting, of course. And the end tables. And the baseboards were coated. And the bottom of the wooden island … and… Continue reading Do other ‘intelligent’ life forms have to clean their toilets?

Sometime when people visit our house for the first time, they ask why there’s a drawing of a female werewolf on my bookshelf (this is usually after they’ve perused Sweetums’ Bigfoot collection.) I’ve mentioned the Wolf Woman of Mobile in many of my stories for AL.com and at speaking events. The Wolf Woman was a… Continue reading Here’s why there’s a drawing of a wolf woman in my house

It’s finally time! Mo Possum will soon be here but you can pre-order now. “Mo Possum is Awesome” is a book I wrote for It’s a Southern Thing about a little opossum and his Southern Critters friends: a cicada, a catfish, an armadillo and a crawfish. It’s a crazy mix but somehow it works! It’s… Continue reading Mo Possum is arriving soon! You can pre-order from It’s a Southern Thing