Mississippi is one of the fattest state in the nation. I think I’ve found one of the reasons why. Nobody walks anywhere around here. People will literally drive around the block. And they don’t seem to carpool much either. At any given festival the ratio of cars to people will probably be not far from…
This week was a strange one. Not only was it cold, but there was some actual winter precipitation down here. By that I mean freezing rain, sleet, and even a little snow. While the Delta didn’t have it as bad as Georgia and the Carolinas it was enough to close Delta State for two days…
Everybody has a different way of speaking. The language we learn, the place we grow up in, and the culture we are from all affect how we talk. So someone from New York does not sound the same as someone from Mississippi, for example. Speech patterns, words, all that sort of thing are very different…
This semester marks my return to the classroom. Not as a teacher, but as a student. You see a major goal of mine is to learn programming. Code Academy helps but there is no substitute for classroom instruction. So I decided to take advantage of my faculty status and audit one of Delta State’s computer…