by Devin Pike | 8 Feb 2023 | Life In A Southern Town
Journal Mastodon: Viva la Revolución! If you’re reading this, you’ve probably clicked the link on my Mastodon profile. Hiya. Yes, it’s me. Have fun running around and looking at various areas of the site. If not, and you’re still running around...
by Devin Pike | 2 Nov 2022 | Life In A Southern Town
I never thought I would say this, especially this time: Putting the funeral for Dad together might have been the best thing to help me achieve some sort of peace with his death. This isn’t the first eulogy, or funeral, that I’ve had to help arrange. I had almost zero...
by Devin Pike | 20 Dec 2016 | Life In A Southern Town
So many of my Christmas memories are inexorably bound to my grandmother’s house. The primary place my family celebrated the holiday was there, along with dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. The dinner and gift exchange were always the centerpiece, but there...
by Devin Pike | 22 Nov 2016 | Life In A Southern Town
I’ve been trying for the last hour to write something appropriate for Scott Eric Kaufman. Nothing works, however. Nothing fits. I want him to be on the other end of a Facebook instant message, so I could bounce ideas off him for the perfect lead. I did that, off and...
by Devin Pike | 12 Dec 2015 | Life In A Southern Town
If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know of my absolute aversion to Andy Williams’ holiday classic song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.” What you might not know, however, is the story of why I break out in hives at the first notes of the song. In...
by Devin Pike | 11 Sep 2015 | Life In A Southern Town
History isn’t written in an instant. We’d like to think so, these days. Best Something EVER, we’ll say about a performance, or a film, or a t-shirt. (More likely, WORST ever, but that’s a discussion for another day.) In the realm of Instant Gratification and Flash...
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