I started Interminable Rambling in August 2015. On this site, I provide reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy. Interminable Rambling arose out of the blog I maintained for the Ernest J Gaines Center. There, I wrote about items in the center’s archives, Gaines’ works, and texts that related to Gaines and Louisiana. When I moved on from the center, I started Interminable Rambling as a way to maintain a writing schedule.
For the past few years, I have set various reading goals for myself. I initially did this to keep myself on a schedule with reading because I know that if I have a goal to reach, I will do my best to reach that goal. I started off small, with a bar of 60 or…
My wife, through her job, occasionally has the opportunity to go on press trips and write about them. Sometimes she does these trips solo, and other times she does them with other journalists and influencers. On a recent group trip, during a rain storm that interrupted their time at a cacao plantation, she spoke with…
I vividly remember being at church one night in 1995, probably a Wednesday, and seeing a poster on the wall with Christian music artists. The poster was one of those that said, “If you like X then you’ll like Y.” Since, over the previous year, I dove into punk rock with the explosion of Rancid,…
We all know that nostalgia is a hell of a drug, especially as we get older. In our progression towards succumbing to death, we constantly look backwards, finding comfort and solace in the past. Most of the time, we fail to interrogate that past, choosing instead to look at it through rose colored glasses, hoping…
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