Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips I attended high school in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. This remained my home while I attended college. During these seven years one source of confusion in my life (I had many) was the concept of Pearl River. While taking a walk, I traversed all my Pearl River demons. Allow me to try to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips An earlier post related how I often ate a bagel for breakfast. Those were the bagels that motels buy from grocery stores. I have no idea how those grocery stories cook those thing they call bagels. They are round with a hole in the middle and are brown, so they do look […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A golf course has plenty of open areas. These areas are supposed to be green, a beautiful lush green. This golf course was instead a glistening silver. Glorious. It was a glorious sight. There is a short period of time on a morning blessed with frost that the landscape glistens in the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips There are a lot of Shoney’s in the south. They have a menu and a buffet area. The buffet area has all the salad, vegetables, side dishes, and desert anyone could want. We went to Shoney’s for the vegetables (see other great meals at Ryan’s). I needed vegetables now and then. Shoney’s […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Right on Route 11, just north of where I-59 crosses Route 11 at interstate exit 90, is Charlie’s Catfish House. This is a little north of Ellisville, Mississippi (actually in the city limits, but you know how they stretch those city limits). The building is plain, sort of big for the area, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips It was a Friday. I had walked (and ridden the bicycle) 18 miles in the heat. It was 80 degrees at 6 AM and 95 at 3 PM when I stopped a few miles outside of Meridian, Mississippi. I had gone through the last few miles of Western Alabama and entered Mississippi. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips As a subset of these stories, I will write a few short stories about great meals I had while taking a walk. It was a Sunday afternoon in Ellisville, Mississippi. I was visiting with my older brother, his wife, and daughter. After attending church services with them, we went for lunch at […]

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by Dwayne Phillips It was a rainy Saturday in Meridian, Mississippi. I had been out on the road a few hours in the morning only to be chased in by heavy rain. Then I went out again just after noon only to be chased again by rain. I gave up on walking for the day. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I like chile relleno; I have for years. See the Wikipedia page about chile relleno. You take a green chile of one type or another, put cheese and sometimes meat inside it, batter it, and fry the whole thing. They are great. One time in Livingston, Alabama and one time in Laurel, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips This occurred the day I walked into Laurel, Mississippi. It was raining – yuck. The north side (as route 11 goes) of Laurel is on “the other side of the tracks” –  literally on the other side of the tracks. The railroad cuts through Laurel with downtown, a mall, shopping centers, and […]

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