Lit: A Storytelling Kitchen

01/13/2026

In my deep dive into the diverse realms of magnolias, here’s a paean to the ultravivid pink deciduous Campbell’s Magnolua that I’d been calling “a tulip tree” for all of my life, until this year.

I hope you find your kicks wit’ dis 1, fresh up on my Patreon

01/10/2026

12/31/2025

Hi, although I am abdicating the modern calendar for the ancient Ethiopian calendar, so to me it’s just another day in the 4th month of 2018, with my blessing to those of you on this New Years Eve being that by the time the Ethiopians and I arrive into 2025 we will have dismantled this fascist f**kery and those responsible for this blight will be dead or in jail…. Let’s make it so!!

12/31/2025

Leaf peepers don’t get it about the soft auburn mats that fall from cypress trees. Even I as a longtime swamp relic from New Orleans overlook & take 4 granted the ancient gymnosperm cypress mulch, when really it’s kinda a fairytale of evolution long before the dinosaurs roamed as we walk over the soft cypress “leaves” that have been falling each year for millions of years and which stand sentinel over our beloved Louisiana swampy neighborhoods, giving the best deepest shade in the summertime heat, reminding me that eternity is always within the here + now…