Snow is in the forecast for Alabama. Central Alabama, where I live, rarely gets snow so it always brings excitement. People who have to cope with snow regularly just can’t understand the panic that the mention of snow in a weather forecast brings to the people of Alabama. Folks rush to the grocery store to buy bread and milk. Schools and businesses close. People hold up in their homes until the snow thaws. It won’t last long after all. I remember a few years ago it started snowing during the morning. The University of Alabama announced that it would close [...]
People do things over and over again and if we do them long enough, we call them traditions and set about trying to explain why we keep doing them. Here in the southeastern US, it is a tradition to eat black eyed peas on new year’s day. It is said to bring good luck to all those who partake of this tradition. Well, I don’t know about that, but it has been the habit of my family to eat black eyed peas on January 1st for as long as I can remember. I grew up on a farm and we [...]
My resolution for 2010 is to write a blog. I’ve been thinking about this for some time but at first I couldn’t imagine what I might have to say that would be interesting to anyone other than my dog. My dog’s name is Jupie, by the way. She’d follow me just about anywhere but most sensible people wouldn’t want to follow me around at all. They’d get pretty bored you see. It’s just home to work – work to home over and over again. Home to church – church to home on Sunday. There are occasional exceptions but I don’t [...]
I was interviewed by a writer for the Montgomery Advertiser in 1996. When the article was published, I was surprised to find that the writer identified me as an Internet guru. I didn’t think of myself in that light. I’m a documentary filmmaker and instructor but I was using the Internet before it became commonplace. At that time I had already developed a few websites. The web pages I had created to promote broadcast of my documentary about the kudzu vine had been picked up by the Yahoo directory and listed as a cool site. They had little sunglasses by [...]
