I started touring the Deep South when I was a kid, twelve or thirteen at the most. My mother is a lifelong addict of the architecture and culture, having been touring antebellum homes since she, herself, was around twelve. As she tells it, her folks (my grandparents) were driving to Disney World in Florida and decided to stop in a town called Natchez, Mississippi, which, at one time, had been home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country, including New York.

Three guesses what those millionaires did that made them so rich.

Rosalie StantonDecember 26, 2019author thoughts, author behavior, racism, white privilege, implicit bias, NatchezComment

Politics: No, I will not shut up about mine.

The presidential election was undoubtedly one of the more contentious in recent years. It was a downright downer at the end of an already shitty year—as discussed previously, 2016 sucked balls. A lot of us—myself included—were hoping that the period following the election would see a return of civility. A lot of us—myself included—assumed that Hillary Clinton would be our president.

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