I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.