Like The Dew - A journal of Southern culture and politics

Taking questions in a recent interview for a local paper, I was asked what the most stressful experience I’d ever had cooking. A colorful memory sprang to mind and I quickly forced it back and thought of a rosier story to tell. But I do believe y’all might know me a little by now and will be ready for this …

This was back when I was in college working in my beloved little juke joint. It was a Wednesday which meant I was there early in the afternoon to start cooking the free meal that was served every week on that day. It must have been winter because I was cooking chili. Anywho, I was in the bar alone assembling the chili in a fourth generation season encrusted stainless steel five-gallon pot when I felt something cool and hard shoved into the back of my neck. Then I heard a man’s voice tell me to open the register.

Read on →

Talk of the South

Blackie and the Champ

by Jack deJarnette | 6 | Jul 28

Daddy was a traveling salesman. He was one of the old school salesmen who travelled by train. Some of my earliest memories were going to train tracks with him. He carried a roll of newspaper and as the train approached, Daddy lit the paper and waved it in the air. The train would stop and Daddy would board for his sales trip …

When I was eight, Daddy came home from a particularly long trip. It was cold and Daddy had on a long overcoat … After a few minutes, he called me over to his chair. He still had his overcoat on. I stood there for a moment with tears in my eyes, then Daddy, with a big smile very carefully and tenderly reached in his pocket and withdrew a black and tan puppy …

Read on →

Southern Politics

Racism: Time For A Change

by Jim Fitzgerald | 6 | Jul 25

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, one fear that surfaced was whether Obama would implement restitution for racial minorities if he were elected. Part of that fear was based on restitution we provided ... Read on →

Ben Stein’s BFF

by Billy Howard | 28 | Jul 22

“The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as ... Read on →

President Obama: An Open Letter To Rush Limbaugh, Part 2

by Matthew Wright | 10 | Jul 21

Hello again Rush: I wanted to finish my thoughts about your words last week regarding my hatred for the white race. As I said earlier, you've managed to ... Read on →

Southern News

A Haiku a Day

by Billy Howard | 7 | Jul 27

My friend Andrew has embarked on a noble mission, to write a haiku every day for a year, chronicling the foibles of life in seventeen poignant syllables. In this age of overwhelming bloviating, his zen-like approach to the news of the ... Read on →

In Libris Veritas Est II

by Alex Kearns | 7 | Jul 25

Read this story from ABCNews.com first and then get back to me. Okay, you’re back. I apologize for the sick sense of disbelief and nausea that you’re now experiencing. “Jessi's social life has largely been confined to her computer. She told ABCNews.com ... Read on →

Remembering the heyday of the Miami Herald

by Chris Wohlwend | 5 | Jul 21

I worked at The Miami Herald in the mid 1970s, the newspaper that was my introduction to big-time journalism, Miami was my first foray into big-city life. The Herald then was fat with pages and news and ambition. ... Read on →

Southern Views

A Writer’s Musical Notes

by Alex Kearns | 1 | Jul 26

During the course of a brief flurry of emails between Jeff Cochran (a frequent contributor to Like the Dew) and I, we touched upon the role of music in a writer’s life. In that I cannot write while any music is ... Read on →

I’ve been Repoodiated – The redefining of America

by Trevor Irvin | 18 | Jul 22

Normal English: Main Entry: re·pu·di·ate Pronunciation: ri-ˈpyü-dē-ˌāt Function: transitive verb / Inflected Form(s): re·pu·di·at·ed; re·pu·di·at·ing Etymology: Latin from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce 1: to divorce or separate formally from (a woman) 2: to refuse to have anything to do with : disown 3 a: ... Read on →

The ‘Art of Loss’ …and Cell Phones

by Will Cantrell | 14 | Jul 22

The bald-headed, naked truth is that I am about to lose it. I am really good---maybe even extraordinary -- at what one might term "the art of loss." Coats, gloves, hats, golf clubs, car keys, eyeglasses, and wallets have slipped through ... Read on →

Southern Life

Body Language

by Billy Howard | 11 | Jul 28

We tell our tales and hold our secrets. Our stories come out on paper, in spoken words, even in the things we choose not to say. And then, with little fanfare, some stories are told in ink on skin, walking with us ... Read on →

Noel Polk: Faulkner ‘continues to amaze’

by Louis Mayeux | 1 | Jul 27

The pre-eminent Faulkner scholar Dr. Noel Polk is likely more familiar with the great Mississippi writer's work than anyone. He has edited corrected versions of all of Faulkner's books. As explained below, Noel consulted Faulkner's original typescripts to correct editorial changes made ... Read on →

The Collision

by Meg Livergood Gerrish | 15 | Jul 25

During the past week, two stories in Like The Dew collided smack into me and dredged up family history that I could never forget, would not want to forget, but had compartmentalized to take advantage of life's forward motion. Alex Kearns shared wrenching heartbreak about ... Read on →

Southern Food & Drink

Fire Good

by Mandy Richburg Rivers | 5 | Jul 26

Southerners love to stand around a fire. This evidenced by the fact that we are probably the only breed of modern era people to purposefully fashion a metal drum into an upright vessel and call it a “fire barrel”. We are so serious about it, we actually take great lengths to cut out holes near the ... Read on →

Hummus Flower

by Kate McNally | 5 | Jul 17

There was a time in my life when I couldn’t eat anything that had wheat in it -- no crackers, no bread, no pita, no gravy, no biscuits, no cookies, no croissants...you get the idea. I got pretty creative with some things. Like hummus. I really, really like hummus, but if you don’t have pita to ... Read on →

Rhythm & Dews

Allman Brothers Band: ‘Southbound’

by Jeff Cochran | 6 | Jul 19

Peter Buck heard things differently. His musical preferences were not those expected of a suburban Atlanta teenager. Among his favorite bands were Iggy and the Stooges, Crazy Horse and the Velvet Underground. In a conversation with rock journalist Anthony DeCurtis, Buck recalled marching ... Read on →

A review of How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly

by Tricia Collins | 1 | Jul 12

Virginia Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway buys flowers for her party, as does Michael Cunningham’s Clarissa Vaugn. We follow both through twenty-four of “the hours.” Connie May Fowler’s Clarissa Burden, a writer afflicted with a profound case of writer’s block, tends her roses on the ... Read on →

People & Places

A Story of Sacrifice

by Jack deJarnette | 15 | Jul 24

I was getting desperate. For two long years I had been waiting, hoping, and praying for a kidney donor. My kidneys were failing because of various medications that I take due to a heart transplant in 1997. Dialysis had not yet been necessary, but each month it came ... Read on →

My Sister, My Self

by Alex Kearns | 14 | Jul 20

Yesterday I was informed that my two-year-older sister, Kerry Lynne Scott, had died suddenly. Now all that I can do is try to write my way through the numb pain of this latest blow (in the past four years I have lost my father, mother, sister… how many ... Read on →

The ‘Art of Loss’ …and Cell Phones

by Will Cantrell | 14 | Jul 22

Egypt

by Chris Wohlwend | 2 | Jul 21

Obsessed with Segregation

by Monica Smith | 2 | Jul 21

Athens

by Chris Wohlwend | 0 | Jul 20

Run to Olympia

by Chris Wohlwend | 1 | Jul 20

Keep your friends close & family closer

by Lee Leslie | 15 | Jul 18

Social Security and the “Lock Box, A Delayed Solution”

by Jim Fitzgerald | 26 | Jul 17

R.I.P.

by Robert Lamb | 15 | Jul 16

When home isn’t home anymore

by Joey Ledford | 8 | Jul 16

Earning Impunity

by Lee Leslie | 32 | Jul 16

In Libris Veritas Est

by Alex Kearns | 6 | Jul 16

Find Post by Author

Login
User Name
Password
Remember me
Register
Forgot password
Login help

Your Southern Thoughts

Click here to view all Southern Thoughts

Frank Povah: Sarah Palin’s latest political catchphrase would go down well in Australia. Everyone – except perhaps Ms P – knows that “seeing pink elephants” is a metaphor for delirium tremens and I’m not the first to point it out, but it’s the Australian take I like. Down Under – where people love metaphors and similes – delirium tremens is often simply “the DTs” but is more commonly known as “the horrors”. Where, I find myself wondering, does she get them. Would Ms Palin hesitate to shoot a mama grizzly if one reared up on its hind legs to defend its cubs when she crossed [...]

Monica Smith: News from a St. Simons Island, GA fishing guide. He reports that he and his "party" caught two "sport fish" (not being a fisherman, I'm not sure what those are) and eight shark. One was five feet long. What seems additionally significant, other than the number, was that they weren't fishing out in the ocean in the Bight of Georgia, but in the brackish backwaters of the intracoastal region. Of course, we've seen dolphin hunting there, so the shark chasing bait is not surprising. What's unusual is that they're there at all. The fishing [...]

Lee Leslie: I don't presume to fully understand the ways of Mother Nature, but she's amazing. Wonderful share. Thank you.

Alex Kearns: Sharks are entering the brackish waters of the St. Marys river now. It would seem that Mother Nature is, understandably, a bit irked. Go get 'em sharks!

» Leave your thoughts

Recommended Reading

Featured DewTubes

Recent DewTubes

Find Post by Author

Login

Your Southern Thoughts

Recent Comments