Yes, Virginia, I am a vegetarian.

January 5, 2010 by The Clever Kris · 6 Comments
Filed under: Deep South, Everyday, education, faith, family, food, health, humor, life 
Man cannot live by peppers alone...entirely. He will also need tomatoes.

You know what’s hard? Yoga. You know what’s harder than that? Trying to explain yoga to your precious family of aging Southern Baptists. Because if it’s not explicitly typed in the King James version of the Holy Bible then it’s most likely of the devil, who probably created yoga to trick Christians into performing exercises that would get them into positions they couldn’t get out of, thus holding them in place so he could catch them. But, yoga is a later issue. First, we have to address a more pressing item, though there are several items overall, not the least of which is the fact...

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I don’t have to use a walker to pump my gas.

December 11, 2009 by The Clever Kris · 2 Comments
Filed under: Deep South, Everyday, faith, humor, life 
No snake eyes for me.

I have realized, lately, that I am, at best, a third cousin once removed from my own definition of self-awareness. I like to think I'm savvy and a smooth operator, most of the time, but I had a bit of a bitter pill to swallow yesterday, when, on my way back from Scooba (perish the thought!), I had to stop and get gas. This is hardly a new thing for me, but unlike my usual stop-and-gos at the Scooba Junction gas station, I had neglected to look at my gas gauge until I was in Brooksville, about twenty minutes north. I had no choice but to pull...

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