Just in time for Fat Tuesday, The Washington Post published my op-ed, “After two pandemic years, ‘Folly chasing Death’ takes on a new Mardi Gras meaning.”
Tag: Mardi Gras
Take Me to the Mardi Gras
It’s Mardi Gras! Fat Tuesday! The final day of Carnival season excesses before we start the long haul through forty days of penance and denial on our way to Easter Sunday. As many of you know, I’m from Citronelle, Alabama, which is just north of Mobile, where the very first Mardi Gras was celebrated in…
A Southern snack staple
What is so good, so delectable, so prized that a seemingly sane person will jump a police barricade and run out in front of a moving vehicle to pluck it out of the beer- and horse apple-tainted street and eat it? A MoonPie, of course! Originally intended to be a filling snack for miners, the…