Category Archives: The Heartland

On The Inauguration Trail, Part 3

(The last in a series I did for Quorum Report in January.) On Wednesday we turned south and headed for Georgia. When we were planning our trip we figured that if we were driving all the way to Washington, we should not come straight back if we did not have to. I wanted a different

On The Inauguration Trail, Part 2

After a long time on the road we finally reached Ashburn, Virginia on Monday afternoon. We had made lunch plans with our friends who flew in from Texas and would be staying with us during the inauguration, but that was before being waylaid by weather in Wytheville, Virginia. What happened instead was that they made

On The Inauguration Trail, Part 1

His generational self-awareness was an odd dichotomy: a young man, well-read and cognizant of current events, aware of what is expected of people his age and content to deliver no more than that with notes of a detached, disaffected regret.

“Literary Villains” in Fort Worth Weekly

Things have been light here because I was working on this column for Fort Worth Weekly about censorship and hometown regression.

19. Road Trip Remainders #1: Driving in Space

Interstate 40 runs a long way across the United States and it bisects Tennessee from west to east, from Memphis on one end to Knoxville on the other. The distance between those two cities is roughly 380 miles, and Nashville sits in between, the Vanderbilt radius to the Volunteer diameter. There are many signs as

Road Diary #1

In east Texas, a dead horse in a yard. At a Pilot gas station/Arby’s, Ray Parker Jr. on the radio, singing “Ghostbusters.”

This Is My Milwaukee

The Best HAM-Burgers Come from Milwaukee’s Canning District This Is My Milwaukee