upbringing

  • 20 Things You Probably Do if You Were Raised Right

    Some of you all are savages. I ain’t talking about your parents (or your mama, since that’s the stinger), but some of you weren’t raised right. I discover this fact almost daily. This morning, I watched somebody who clearly wasn’t raised right put the lives of myself and at least 10 other people at risk…

  • Am I Actually a Southerner? An Examination

    I was recently profiled for AL.com, the digital outlet for three of Alabama’s largest newspapers: the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times and Mobile’s Press-Register. During the course of the interview, Roy Johnson, the story’s author, noted that it was interesting that I identified as a Southerner, considering my transient background: It’s intriguing that Jackson so…