This week marks the one year anniversary of my move to Cleveland. It’s also been a year since I started this blog. That so much time has past so quickly is amazing. Only 12 months ago I was a recent grad who had just accepted his first job. Now I’m a full time…
Yesterday was Graduation Day here at Delta State. Like most universities, there was a processional in which the faculty marched. I was among it. DSU has two graduations, one in May and the other in December, and most faculty at the library volunteered to march in the later. Thus the three new people were left…
By Biswarup Ganguly (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Southern food has a certain reputation. People say folks down here deep fry everything. They say the food is boring and generic and unhealthy. Northerners point to Fried Chicken, Fried Twinkies, Fried Snickers bars, Fried Oreos, and Deep fried steak as examples….
You may recall a few mentions last year of the community garden located behind my apartment. It is officially known as the Delta State University Wiley Community Garden. I began volunteering there last summer in an effort to meet new people. It has definitely succeeded and I have made a number of friends. It feels…
Today is Easter Sunday. For me it has never been a big holiday. Growing up my family would go to church and visit relatives. But for me personally it never had the special significance that Christmas or Thanksgiving do. About the only tradition I personally have is eating Cadbury cream eggs every year around this…
Saturday was perfect. Not too hot, not too cold, no rain. So the fact that the Crossties Arts and Jazz Festival occurred was fortuitous. Along with Octoberfest, Crossties is one of two big festivals in Cleveland. They basically bookend the festival season around here. Unlike Octoberfest there was no barbecue competition. Instead the main feature was…
One of the perks of living in the South is that the weather warms up quickly. This week it was in the 80s and while cooler weather is here such things don’t last this time of year. But there is a downside as you may have guessed by the picture to the left. The weather…
Spring is here. The trees are budding, the insects are buzzing, and people are starting to come out again. Thus festival season is right around the corner. But it also means that the crawfish boils have started. A crawfish boil is basically what it sounds like. You take a bunch of crawfish (known as…
Lately I’ve been wondering about the names people have. Everyone has a legal first and last name of course. But that isn’t always what we are known by. For example my name is Michael, but people generally call me Mike. There isn’t any particular reason and I don’t have any strong feelings about either…
One of the things people strongly associate with the Deep South is barbecue and with good reason. As you probably noticed from my previous posts it is something they take seriously down here. One can find some of the best pulled pork, ribs, and smoked sausage you’ve ever had. And the best…