Columns
Ode to Hush Puppies: From trailer park goodness to haute cuisine (Oxford Town)
The first couple broke apart, spittering into gritty remnants in hot grease. On the paper towel, they resembled sand-sprinkled fritters more than the round, deep-fried biscuit balls they wanted to be. My mother laughed at them, suggesting we hit up Catfish One. I cranked up the heat.
Katrina one year later: Strength of a little sister (The Sun Herald)
Monday night other girls in my residence hall cried because the Biloxi lighthouse stood tall or because the Bay bridge had collapsed.
I cried because Aspen was all I had left and she was in Columbus. I cried because, of all the other grieving Coasties, she was the only one who knew what I felt.
Katrina a lesson in roughing it (two-year Katrina anniversary column for The Post and Courier)
I like to say my parents’ knack for primitive camping and outdoor adventuring saved them during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
It takes a certain kind of mind to tie the family sailboat to its trailer and several oak trees in the front yard rather than boarding up the windows or evacuating.
Features
Inside a first-rate moonshine-drinking, hat-off-and-sweeping-the-floor, Mississippi blues party (The Knoxville News Sentinel)
The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
Guardsman’s family keeps him close: Duty puts Summerville man half a world away.
Half a world away, S’ville family misses Guardsman
Sculptor recycles Grace steel, fashions into industrial art
WWII veteran visits Italian town, residents honor troops
More (Harry Potter release, engineering camp). Many of my stories did not get posted online at the P&C.
Reviews
‘Baby Mama’ offers big laughs, sharp dialogue
