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God. Family. Football. A Twanglish Lesson
People from other regions see our devotion to football in this part of the country as misplaced, or even delusional. They're wrong.
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Echoes of Shiloh: Historic School Decays in Cattle Pasture
I stumbled upon this haunting echo of the Old South while driving the back roads near Starr, S.C.
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Our Hidden History: A Response to The New Yorker
RSM founder Wayne Franklin responds to the portrayal of this site in a recent column by George Packer of the New Yorker.
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Grits from Heaven: Why I don’t do Paleo
Judging by social media and conversations with friends, everyone is adopting the Paleo Diet, which, as the name implies, requires you to eat only rocks.
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Reclaiming the Traditional Southern Diet
Our ancestors were the original hipsters – eating "free-range" meat, organic vegetables and fruits, drinking milk from pastured cows. Their food came from the land; it was there that it originated. It...
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To Paleo or not to Paleo?
That seems to be the question these days, as the Paleo Diet is sweeping the nation. Today, two Real Southern Men take on this dicey topic with two very different points of view.
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Real Southern Rules: Reconsidering the Real Southern Man
Thanks to the mocking words of a certain writer for The New Yorker, we've had to take a long, hard look at our Southernness. And we've completely reconsidered what a Real Southern Man is.
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Voluntary Indignities: My Adventure in Self-Publishing, Part 1
In the greater publishing world, self-published authors are regarded as being slightly more respectable than personal injury lawyers but significantly less respectable than your average ex-con.
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Voluntary Indignities: My Adventure in Self-Publishing, Part 2
I could mention that the book is currently on sale for only $1.99 at the Kindle Store, but that would compromise my integrity as a blogger. So, I won't.
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Help RSM Founder Wayne Franklin Reach #1 in Kindle Bestsellers for Satire
Make this Thursday MouseFirst Thursday and help RSM founder Wayne Franklin turn his novel into a bestseller.
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