Yesterday I saw something interesting.   It was around 9:30 AM and I was coming back from Walmart.  On the southbound side of Highway 61 near the intersection with Highway 8 someone had either broken down or ran out of gas.  It was hard to tell which, though the latter would be ironic since there…

Once upon a time I was asked to paint a room.  At the time I was working a summer job as a custodian at a school district back home.  There was one room, a closet with cinder block walls, that needed a coat of paint (or several as it turned out).  That responsibility fell to…

There are many differences between the North and the South.  However most of them haven’t really bothered me so far.  There’s the weather, but being that I have air conditioning it really isn’t an issue.  The food is good and the people are nice.  Yet one thing is hard to avoid here in Cleveland, Mississippi:…

As I mentioned on my Facebook page, my 4th of July was spent at a little place called the Poor Monkey Lounge.  Everyone refers to it as Po Monkey’s.  If you haven’t already heard about it, the place might not seem like anything special.  One may even be tempted to say it’s a tad shady. …