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

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

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

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.