Category Archives: Southern

The Owl

In 1983 a troubled Vietnam Vet takes his seven year old daughter on a drive through a forlorn winter prairie in Oklahoma when he suddenly stops and decides to investigate a barn around noon. Why they were on the isolated single track road and why they were back so late is a mystery, but in the barn was a strange heaviness and a beautiful bright white owl.

Fantasy Fudge, Tribulations of Gerry and Holidays in Oklahoma

Food and Diet, Southern

As Thanksgiving approaches let us recall the worst fudge recipe in the history of the world, ‘Fantasy Fudge’ and big Oklahoman family get-togethers that usually resulted in at least a few feuds carried on all year long and an uncle who didn’t get a bicycle so used that as a reason to slide into alcoholism for over fifty years.

Rural Route 2, Oklahoma in the 80’s and lots and lots of spiders.

Paranormal, Southern, Story, top story, UFO

Trigger Warning: there is an abundance of spiders, ticks and scorpions in this story. An animal dies and generally this is a pretty damn dark story, and nobody should read it.

I see spiders. Spiders find me. I have nutty interactions with spiders almost every week. They will slide down a web in front of my face. Come over and sit beside the mouse while I work at the computer. They’ll come and do dishes with me. Spiders are my spirit animal and it’s horrific. Why not owls? Or birds? Maybe a sharp billed Raven. I would take a possum or even a grasshopper. Why Spiders oh’ Universe?

Fat, Sick & Dying – An American Story.

Food and Diet, Southern, top story

In the United States we don’t have an Obesity problem. We have a food additive problem. The B-Vitamins are required for fat deposition and are included in otherwise low-nutrient food sources. Food producers are allowed to put in more vitamin mix then required so that labels can say, “200% of your daily required…” The low-nutrient food sources are also fortified with iron which causes a whole Pandora’s box of health issues such as in white Caucasians, who are prone to hemochromotosis a genetic predisposition to store extra iron. Vitamin C causes an uptick in Iron acquisition and is also commonly added to food and supplemented meaning most people get several times their iron requirements daily. And finally, worth of an entire book by itself: inorganic phosphates that can literally turn your elastic happy heart arteries to stone.

3+ Hour Cabbage. A Southern Story.

Food and Diet, Southern

Mrs. Withers recalls yet another childhood saga, this time her mother attempts to cook cabbage from scratch which is an arduous time consuming as well as smelly task.