August 2022

The Lords of the Rings Innovation among dolphins in a salt marsh Story and Photographs by Todd Pusser Tucked back in a western Florida salt marsh, far from the open ocean, a trio of bottlenose [...]

All in Good Time The pause at the top By Lee Pace “Beware the fury of a patient man.”   — John Dryden Over a lifetime I have collected baseball cards, vintage postcards, spy novels, golf [...]

Fiction by Lee Smith   •   Illustrations by Matthew Shipley The house I grew up in was one of a row of houses strung along a narrow river bottom like a string of beads. We were not allowed to [...]

Fiction by Clyde Edgerton Illustrations by David Stanley   1977, Hurt, Tennessee A great big lady goes under the funeral tent in her high heels and sings “How Great Thou Art.” She just belts [...]

Mai Tai Just another reason to drink rum By Tony Cross I’ve got way too many bottles of rum in my closet. Yes, my liquor “cabinet” is a closet — judge if you must. All that rum got me thinking [...]

By Ashley Walshe The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees   August is equal parts ecstasy and agony. [...]

Leo (July 23 – August 22) Here’s what the other signs struggle to understand about Leos: You’re not seeking the spotlight; you are the spotlight. Nothing delights you more than basking the ones [...]

William Faulkner invented Yoknapatawpha County as a place for his imagination to live, and every Southern writer knew where it was, even if it wasn’t on any map. Ernest Hemingway loaded his [...]

Into Being Painter Herb Jackson creates meticulous, vibrant abstracts By Liza Roberts “I don’t want you to know how I work unless I tell you, because I want it to seem spontaneous,” says Herb [...]