Watcha Gonna Do
Moments, musings, and questions from everyday life
Poor William Loves Water – Hot or Cold
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO!!) Hey Man, I just can’t seem to get enough water. Must be the Delta boy in me, or maybe it’s just the inherent need...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Four: Pilgrims
By WILLIAM PRENTISS I had already begun contemplating death prior to my present state. When younger, healthy and virtually free of scars and the tissue that remains, death was something far...
GROUND ZERO CARE FEST 2014 GONNA ROCK
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO and PHOTO SLIDESHOWAttend this year's popular annual event CARE FEST 2014 to benefit the Clarksdale Care Station. Head to Ground Zero Blues Club, Thursday, September 25 at...
Yazoo Pass Emails Crack Me Up
By MAGICAL MADGECLARKSDALE, Mississippi PHOTOS Emails are bombarding my inbox. Thankfully I have learned the iPhone trick that allows me to mark all new mail as "read" in one simple...
Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down
By POOR WILLIAMCLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEOS INCLUDED Spirit draggers, I can’t stand ‘em and yet I “are” one! My lovely wife Madge Marley Howell sang a powerful bluesy song during the...
Westrock Coffee in Helena for month long pop-up
By MAGICAL MADGEHelena, Arkansas (PHOTO SLIDESHOW) Clarksdale and Helena. Helena and Clarksdale. I like the sound of that. Our two cities are finding ways to connect and cooperate, helping our worlds,...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Three
By WILLIAM PRENTISSClarksdale, Mississippi Rough day. I feel no physical pain, but I still deal with and feel mental anguish. This angst is usually a result of painful memories or...
MOHEAD
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEOS and PHOTOS) Hey man, what kind of title is “Mohead?” Well, I am just following suite. The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival (September 12-14, 2014) lists...
Adventurous Food Journalists Dip Down in the Delta
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi “Clarksdale is truly one of the most inspiring places ever for a writer to get the creative juices flowing—especially if the topic happens to be...
Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Two
By WILLIAM PRENTISS Clarksdale, Mississippi I don’t always understand or agree with what Sis reads to me from Leo Tolstoy’s A Calendar of Wisdom, but it sure does make me think. Thinking is...
Photographer Rory Doyle home in the Delta
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (PHOTOS) On a serendipitous night in the Mississippi Delta, The Real Delta (TRD) hosted a “get-together” event at its office located at 216 Third Street in Clarksdale...
Matagorda Dringling
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi Recently, I had the privilege of taking a covey of local ladies, superbly seasoned with intellect, on a Delta Bohemian® Back Road Excursion. Identities can’t be...