Category: Grits Country

In Search of the Wild Plum By admin – Posted on 25 June 2010 Re-posted in honor of the beginning of yet another Georgia summer…   Do you still believe in fairies, elves, and leprechauns? Is Santa Claus your constant companion, rather than just a seasonal apparition? Have you searched for, and found, the wild plum? If your answer is […]

Wise Men By admin – Posted on 13 December 2009

By admin – Posted on 15 December 2009

So What the Heck is an EMP? By admin – Posted on 08 January 2010 Our world is not altogether safe from cataclysmic, potentially civilization ending, events — impact from an asteroid or large comet or eruption of the super volcano at Yellowstone for example. Some experts say that it was a huge eruption of Krakatoa in 523 AD that […]

Coffee and Cream     By admin – Posted on 16 December 2009   Coffee and cream (not milk!). One of the great pairings of all time. Like Bogie and Bacall, Lucy and Ricky, Crosby and Hope, Roger Williams and any piano, Brooks and Dunn, Sinatra and a microphone, Christmas and snow. Admittedly, most Georgians know little about the latter, […]

Ghost Deer? By admin – Posted on 26 October 2010 Author’s note: The following is a true story. Completely contrary to the natural order of things, it has been embellished very little. I might say that it has not been embellished at all, but that would surely strain the bounds of credibility, so I won’t. What you are about to […]

That Persistent Question: Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? By admin – Posted on 28 January 2010 It’s a question as old as man. Or, at least as old as that day when man first came to believe in a supreme being. Because we and those we love are all human, and, therefore, fragile and mortal, we will […]

The Jeep and I By admin – Posted on 14 January 2010 Me and Jeep, we be buds. You know, best friends, BFF’s, simpatico, brothers from different – uh – manufacturers. Trouble is, we’re just not good for each other. You’ve heard of a love : hate relationship? Well, this is a love : complete-and-total-destruction relationship. I’ve had two Jeeps […]

I Wish You Enough By admin – Posted on 17 January 2013 Borrowed the following from a Facebook post: Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said: “I love you and I wish you enough.” […]