I don’t know how to start this story. Or write it actually. It is a story that will offend. And it should. It is a story of a different...

Well, it would appear that I am now officially part of The Resistance . Part of a rag-tag group of wounded, battered Progressives (nee...

We all came for the houses, I think. Grand and glorious old hulks, beasts and beauties that stirred our souls. Unpainted ladies with some...

I have persuaded myself to write about this MAGA  thing. It is a curiosity to me. A curiosity and a serious nuisance. A ‘dog whistle’ of...

Some memories last longer than others. Some retain a measure of our best selves. A handful hold a ration of success and pride that...

Not long ago, our son Beau Baylor asked me a leading question. One to which he had obviously given considerable thought. “Dad,” he...

The physics of flying are pretty straightforward. The forces that keep you aloft, the Upward Forces, have to be equal or greater than the...

I just had my annual physical. And to be honest, I had been stressing about it for months. But not for the reasons one would assume an...

When I was in grade school, I was a very religious and holy little boy. ‘Pious’ would perhaps not be too big a word. I was intent on...

It was Christmas Eve of 1970, and it was looking like this was going to be my first Christmas alone. I was in Togo, a small country in...

I suppose it was just a matter of time before I got around to writing about masturbation. You know, buffin' the muffin…choking the...

I was thinking about coffee this morning. Well of course I was thinking about coffee. It was morning and I was awake. What else would I...

On Tuesday, November 3rd, after I voted, I went out to look for America. And to tell you the truth, I wasn’t sure it was still out there....

I am deeply blessed. I am a man liberated and unrestrained. I feel anointed, sanctified and fortified. There is space yet in my heart,...

The Spencer County Six I discovered this treasure of a photograph not long ago in a large, unmarked cardboard box I had inherited after...

I have been experimenting of late with the Law of Gravity. It has seemed to me to be increasingly oppressive, and to be honest, it’s...

I was born and raised in a small town in the near-South. It was a fine place to grow up, and I have wonderful memories of it. But it was...

There was a movie a long time ago called The Graduate. It was about a young man who was about my age then, who was also of course about...