: Seeing the World Again I began my career as a professional photographer. Well, in a sense. My friend Joel had jerry-rigged …
: "Why do you hate the South?" I’m only going to do this once. First, some perspective. As I have written on several occasions — I …
: Changes Vince Gilligan famously described Beaking Bad as the story of how Mr. Chips turns into Scarface, and …
: The Beginning of a Story A few days ago we buried my mother in Hopewell Cemetery, Hanceville, Alabama. She lies next to her …
: The Disappeared (open in new tab to embiggen) The house my father grew up in is also the house that I grew up in, …
: Family Matters ~ 1 ~ When Christopher Lasch’s Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged appeared in 1977, …
: A Proustian Moment One of my favorite videos on the internet is this one, featuring Arsenal legend Ian Wright’s story …
: Everyday People : 1 : On a summer day in 1978, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, …
: Beginnings For my eleventh birthday I was given a small portable record player — one of those little numbers …