Front Porch Philosophy
Friday Nights In a Small Town
Friday night football in a small town isn’t about the scoreboard. It’s about community gathering under the lights, lifting our kids up through every win and every hard‑earned loss. […]
Culture
Front Porch Philosophy
The Simple Joy of Cornbread and Milk
There are fancy desserts in this world. There are pastries with names I can’t pronounce, cakes that take three days to make, and ice creams that cost more than a tank of gas. But none […]
Front Porch Philosophy
The Unwritten Rules of a Potluck Dinner
If you ever want to understand our local culture in its purest form, skip the museums and head straight to a potluck. A potluck is where hospitality, tradition, and a little bit of friendly competition […]
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When Lettuce Turns on You, Trust Little Debbie
Every now and then the news serves up a story so strange you have to sit down on the porch and let your brain catch up. Lately it has been all this talk about lettuce […]
Front Porch Philosophy
Grape Soda is Cheaper Than Therapy
There was a time in my childhood when the greatest luxury in the world came in the form of a grape soda in a glass bottle. Not the plastic kind that always tasted faintly like […]
Front Porch Philosophy
250 Years of Hope, Hard Work, and Everyday Hands
There is something about the Fourth of July that always makes me slow down a little. Maybe it is the heat settling over the yard like a warm quilt, or the way the cicadas tune […]
Front Porch Philosophy
Bringing Back the Smoke of Summers Past
There was a time when the smell of charcoal drifting through a neighborhood meant something. It meant somebody’s daddy was out in the yard with a metal spatula in his back pocket. It meant kids […]
Front Porch Philosophy
When the Front Porch Was the Heartbeat of a Neighborhood
There was a time when a front porch could tell you everything you needed to know about a place. You could walk down any street in town and hear the soft hum of conversation drifting […]
Front Porch Philosophy
Sunday Dinner
Sunday dinner has always been more than a meal. It was the weekly pause button, the one guaranteed moment when the world slowed down long enough for everybody to sit in the same room and […]
Front Porch Philosophy
Appalachian: The Word That Separates Locals from the Lost
Sometimes “that” word will catch my ear. I might hear it in a grocery store line or from a tourist studying a map like it’s written in code. Or maybe I’ll hear it on a […]