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Index
Cover
Title
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: South Toward Home
I. Home
The Roses of Fairhope
Mama Always Said...Choose Your Words Carefully
My Brother’s Garden
Pretty Girl
Crazy Cat Lady
The Porch
Take Your Medicine, Boy
Time for the Year’s Best Nap
My Time Machine
All-Night Gospel
Saving Face
Endless Summer
Happy As a Pig
Red Dirt
II. Table
For a Vegetable, I’ll Have White Gravy
Back to the Bayou
Traveling Food
Fully Dressed
Your First Oyster
Bad Slaw
Never-ending Grace
The Plane Truth
Magic on the Plate
Seasoned in the South
Summer Snow
The Impossible Turkey
Honor Thy Matriarch
Requiem for a Fish Sandwich
III. Place
What Stands in a Storm
No Place Like Home
Trade Day
Lost in the Dark
The Eternal Gulf
Donkey Business
Armadillo
Dixie Snow
Merry and Bright
Shopping
My Kind of Town
The Lost Gulf
The Yankee Mystique
Cotton
Stillness
IV. Craft
Why I Write About Home
The Fine Art of Piddling
The Color of Words
The Blank Notebook
Fish Story
The Quill and the Mule
Words on Paper
Wood, Paint, Nails, and Soul
Grandpa Was a Carpenter
Stuck for Good
V. Spirit
Down Here
For the Love of the Game
All Saints’ Day
When Fireworks Go South
O Christmas Tree
Wheels of Time
The Gift of Loafering
Holiday Lies
O Christmas Sock
Cowboys Are Her Weakness
A Cast of Characters
Nick of Time
109 Yards Returned, Two Points Denied, and One Twist Left in the Road
Long Time Coming
Born Too Late
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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