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Remembering Ron Hicks

Remembering Ron Hicks

I don’t remember the first year my friend Tony invited me up to his house for the Fourth of July. I know what the plan was. It was the Fourth, it was his mom’s birthday, and we were going to grill out, eat some of his dad’s

Mother

My mother passed away on Tuesday, but she is not gone. After eighty-seven years on this Earth, she has moved on to whatever is next and the cliche is true that I am happy she no longer suffers the pain of this life. I am sorry for those of you

Take Two, They're Small

Take Two, They're Small

Yesterday I posted one of my tongue-in-cheek “WonTone Records” write-ups about Losing Her By Fractions (One Fifth at a Time). My dad commented that it reminded him of a song my grandfather, Lee Jackson Cooper, wrote with Dalton Roberts. So of course I went digging—and in mere minutes stumbled

The Ballad of James Killingsworth

The Ballad of James Killingsworth

Back in the early Aughts, I worked for a company called ARS, and Brad York was my right-hand man. Brad and I sat across from each other with four or five other people in a dingy little office that had once been the card room of a golf course clubhouse,

A Eulogy For Si

A Eulogy For Si

It’s been a year since the death of my grandmother, Si. A whole year without her laugh, her smile, her stubbornness, and her stories—and somehow, she’s still with me. I was honored to speak at her funeral. This is what I said that day. Ladies and gentlemen,