Seen a man’s face turn the color of a ripe beet during a game of checkers? I have. It was my cousin last summer – bless his heart – over a particularly bad move with a king that cost him the whole game. He was huffing and puffing like a bull, ready to blow down […]

I remember a fella once came into my hardware store looking for a specific kind of nail. He needed the right one, you see – for this particular project he was on. Spent twenty minutes pacing around, sighing like his best friend had stolen his last biscuit. I finally asked him, “Son, what’s the problem?” […]

I’ll never forget the time my nephew was trying to explain TikTok to me. I thought it was a new kind of toe-tapping dance. Turns out, it’s more like a digital carnival that never sleeps – and folks are spending more time staring at its bright lights than they are at their own dinner tables. […]

Ever see a Southern fella try to parallel park his old pickup truck? It ain’t pretty. There’s a lot of grinding gears, a fair bit of sweating, and usually ends with the truck sitting at a jaunty angle that’d make a drunk man jealous. Now, that’s adversity in a nutshell – unexpected, a little embarrassing, […]

Remember the first time you tried to assemble IKEA furniture without those confusing little drawings? You ended up with a wobbly chair that looked more like modern art than functional seating. What if you had a personal guide, right there in your pocket, telling you exactly which screw goes where? That’s the promise of Mentorship […]