Sweet Home Mississippi

I'm fairly settled in my new place in Jackson, Mississippi.  I live in an area of Jackson that's known as Fondren.  Fondren used to be the location of the Mississippi Lunatic Asylum.  Somehow when I discovered this information it did not surprise me in the least.  Fondren is home to artists and folks who like to get their mingle on.  Apparently during Christmas there are light competitions and an award a Fondren house might hope for is the "Keeping it Funky" award.  Once a month the Fondren people meet up at the Rainbow Co-op grocery story to do a bike pub crawl.  Often folks crawl home in the wee hours of the morning.  I really love Fondren.  I really love funky artists.  Right up the road from my place is Lemuria bookstore which is one of my favorite bookstores in the WORLD.

Here are some pictures of my place...I'm going to wait to put some up of the guest room...it still needs a bit of work.

My room, I painted those trees on the wall!

View from my front door.

Other side of my bedroom.

Dining area, looking onto back porch.

Dining area looking out back window.

Kitchen.

Living room.


Come visit y'all!

Back to the Land of my People

In July I'm moving to Jackson, Mississippi.  Behaven University has offered me a faculty position in the Theatre Department and so I journey back to the land of my people (my mom and dad are of Mississippi stock that goes back way before the Civil War).  A couple of years ago I toyed with the idea of moving back there and starting a non-profit call the Mississippi Public Theatre.  An organization that would be dedicated to developing Mississippi playwrights as well as playwrights that have a play set in or about Mississippi as well as getting plays out to the smaller towns in the state.  This is still something that I'm very interested in pursuing.

My hope is to find a 2 bedroom place near the school so that I can entertain guests and take them on amazing southern road trips.  Belhaven is in a lovely historic area of Jackson.  Even though they don't have Trader Joe's they are getting a Whole Foods, so I should be ok.  Right now there is a groovy place called Rainbow Natural Grocery that will be a great place to shop.

My favorite bookstore in the world is in Jackson.  Lemuria.  I shall be there often...hanging out with Mississippi writers, being cool.  You know.

When you come we'll go to Brent's for breakfast.  Some scenes from  THE HELP were shot here.

This is all for now...I'll still come and work in LA and Seattle and wherever else people will have me.