Grandma Bernadette has a dish that has been her signature dish ever since I have been alive. She calls it “Shrimp Spaghetti.” Most people don’t know what it is and look at me funny when I mention it. It’s just store-bought spaghetti in a sauce which contains crushed canned shrimp, tomato paste and garlic. I’m …

I’m not much of an environmentalist, mostly just paying lip service to the idea, but one of the things I truly regret is the decline of the firefly. When I was a kid living in extremely rural [REDACTED], Kentucky, I would see so many of them at night that the fields I played in looked …

When I was in junior high in Winfiield, Tennessee there was a boy named Dewayne who would pester everyone he came in contact with. One of the ways he used to get on my nerves was to poke me in the side with his index finger. For some reason, every time he did this, he …

Editor’s Note: Originally this post was rife with links and sources documenting the phenomena described from both mainstream and fringe sources. Those links are over a decade old and mostly no longer active, so I have removed them. If you are curious about them you could likely dig them up with a Search Engine. Well, …

I’m reading a book entitled 1996 by Gloria Naylor, which details a fictionalized story of one woman’s real belief that government agents are harassing her on a daily basis because she is Black and cried at the Million Man March. Somehow this translates into the NSA believing that she is an Anti-Semitic, Radical Supporter of …