There are two types of people in this world: Chocolate lovers and fruit lovers. Chocolate lovers pace themselves through a meal, making sure not to order too much in any one course so that they may receive their reward in the end— some type of rich, decadent, chocolate creation. Fruit lovers, on the other hand, [...]

The Saints won the Super Bowl! I had to get that off of my chest at the onset of this column. I’m published in 30 newspapers throughout Mississippi and Louisiana, and almost all of them run the column on a different day. Some of you are reading this a week after Tracy Porter snagged one [...]

As the years passed, our after-church meals on Sunday moved from one place to another. Members of the family moved away, some passed away, and new members joined the troop. Our after-church meal today is a result of 21st Century lifestyles. We are a nomadic troop on Sundays. We move from restaurant to restaurant rarely eating in someone’s home.

Super Saints Hell has frozen over. Pigs are flying, and when the sun rose over Bourbon Street this morning, it came up out of the west. An entire city called in sick because the party is still going on. The Saints are in the Superbowl. I have been a Saints fan all of my life. [...]

My Mississippi A decade ago, I wrote a short, stream-of-consciousness piece disputing the negative and stereotypical views the South. It quickly spread across the World Wide Web, spawned a couple of books, and a regional broadcast network’s imaging and branding campaign. Actually, it’s still making its way around the Internet. Several months ago I was [...]

I don’t play golf. Actually, at 48-years old, I’ve just started playing golf, but that’s a story for later in this column. The point is: Even though I’ve just started playing golf, I’m terrible at it. So the former statement is true, and it’s safe to say that I don’t play golf. As a kid, [...]

I did it. I made it 30 days without eating meat, no seafood, either. A lot of you out there didn’t think I could do it. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure if I could do it. Now it’s over and, after today, I can start writing about something other than my intimate relationship with [...]

It’s a Christmas Eve feeling, this thing I’ve got. Remember when you were seven-years old and couldn’t wait for Christmas morning— so much so, that you couldn’t sleep the night before. That type of anticipation and excitement is rare for those of us who have passed the third grade. There’s an anticipatory energy one feels [...]

Welcome to day 21 of my 30-day journey into vegetarianism. I have learned a lot over the last three weeks. I have learned that there are many in-the-closet vegetarians out there, and if one writes about becoming a vegetarian, they will out themselves. They’re like zombies in a low-budget horror movie. When the sun goes [...]

Welcome to day 14 of my 30-day excursion into vegetarianism. Here are some observations from the other side. Observation 1.) I’ve actually become a carbotarian. As long as it doesn’t have a face or a tail, I’m eating it. Pancakes, French fries, bagels, hash browns, nachos, Cap’n Crunch, and cheese pizza all have one thing [...]