Last month, Sweetums and I took a trip to south Alabama for a speaking engagement and then to Georgia for a family event. In between, we ended up on some Georgia back roads, seeking out oddities to photograph for my upcoming guidebook to Southern roadside attractions. We didn’t have tons of time but there were… Continue reading Our road trip to ‘Stranger Things’ film sites in Georgia
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Moms who raised kids in the Seventies sure were brave
In honor of Mother's Day, I'm running an excerpt from a column I did about memories of Mom from the 1970s, back when we lived dangerously and rode without seat belts. This column also appears in my book, "Not Quite Right: Mostly True Tales of a Weird News Reporter." When you’re a kid, you have… Continue reading Moms who raised kids in the Seventies sure were brave
There be giants in Dallas, Ga.: A Muffler Man & Uniroyal Gal taller than Sweetums
Sweetums is like a little boy when we come across roadside giants – perhaps because he so rarely sees figures that are taller than his 6-foot-7 frame. We recently made a road trip through Georgia and made a quick side-stop on the way home in the city of Dallas for the sole purpose of seeing… Continue reading There be giants in Dallas, Ga.: A Muffler Man & Uniroyal Gal taller than Sweetums
Your mom needs ‘Fairly Odd Mother’ and ‘Not Quite Right’ for Mother’s Day
If your mom doesn't have a copy my first humor book, "Fairly Odd Mother: Musings of a Slightly Off Southern Mom," now's the time to correct that little problem. It was my first collection of humor columns and features lots and lots of parenting humor. My second collection, "Not Quite Right: Mostly True Tales of… Continue reading Your mom needs ‘Fairly Odd Mother’ and ‘Not Quite Right’ for Mother’s Day
Why you have to see the movie-set town from ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’
You will all be happy to learn Sweetums won back all his Best Husband points (the ones he lost when he drove right past the Laura Ingalls Wilder House on our honeymoon without waking me up) … and he did it by reading a billboard. For years, I had been planning to visit the Whistle… Continue reading Why you have to see the movie-set town from ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’
