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: One Thing Led to Another
A while back, I put together a playlist built around Bo Diddley and a handful of other blues giants. As often happens these days, the streaming algorithms took that as a suggestion rather than a destination.
Before long, they had wandered...
We Built Things to Do
I know I am in trouble when I quit wanting to make things.
Not for clients. Not for money. Not because they needed doing.
Just because.
For most of my life, creating things has been a reasonably accurate gauge of my emotional health. Whe...
Playlist of the Week: Bo Knows
I came to Bo Diddley through sneakers.
Bo Jackson’s sneakers, to be precise.
Younger generations may not fully appreciate how culturally influential Nike was during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Michael Jordan. Andre Agassi. Charles Bar...
I Can’t Read Books Anymore
Photo by Mustafi Numann on Unsplash
I can’t read books anymore.
I mean that literally. Eye floaters. The kind that drift across the page like gnats at dusk. Reading-turned-nap faster than you can say Go Dawgs! I’ll make it ten pages, mayb...
Playlist of the Week: Wish We'd Gotten More
Every generation has its list.
Ask a Baby Boomer about musicians who died too young and you’ll hear names like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and perhaps Jim Croce. Ask Generation X and the conversation quickly turns to Kurt Cob...
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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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