The Last Free-Range Kid: Stories from the South™
Russell TrippI grew up in the South during the era of free-range children, where baseball, bikes, and Slurpees shaped most of my boyhood summers. These days, I write about memory, family, and the small Southern stories that still manage to say something big.
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Playlist of the Week: Green Grass & High Tides
I guess it was inevitable. Sooner or later I was going to have to do a Southern Rock playlist.
You couldn’t grow up in the South during the late 1970s and 1980s without these bands contributing to the soundtrack.
Even if you didn’t care m...
Playlist of the Week: The Cars
There are albums you love because they’re great albums.
Then there are albums that somehow become part of the geography of your life.
For me, that album was The Cars by The Cars.
By the time I discovered it in high school, it was already...
A Mother’s Day Recipe for Kindness
Momma always told me, “Find something to like in everyone you meet.” One of the best, most practical pieces of advice I’ve ever received. And one I fail to live up to almost every day.
It became the theme of her eulogy, given by Momma’s pa...
The Last One Standing
I’m sitting here working on this week’s playlist column — just another quiet morning, coffee doing what it’s supposed to do, cursor blinking like it’s waiting on me to say something halfway worth reading. And it’s patient about it, like it’...
Playlist of the Week: Small Town Songs
I used to think small towns were something you grew out of.
Like an old pair of shoes — scuffed up, a little too tight, and better left behind once you had somewhere better to be. Somewhere with taller buildings. Faster people. A skyline t...
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I grew up in the South during the era of free-range children, where baseball, bikes, and Slurpees shaped most of my boyhood summers. These days, I write about memory, family, and the small Southern stories that still manage to say something big.
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