The first thing I did when I turned 18 was buy a cigar. I enthusiastically presented my identification, bought a stick, came home to my parents’ house, and to the shock of my Mother, I casually lit it on the back porch. Her eyes were as big as silver dollars;…

I see Tervis cups/bottles/tumbers on my Goodwill adventures all the time.  We have quite a collection at home, but I’m particularly fond of the custom designs.  The issue with a lot of the cups I see at Goodwill is that they are stained or have the Tervis ‘haze’.  I typically…

Red Clay Soul readers are fantastic.  If you only knew how many conversations I have going in DMs, emails, etc…it is really inspiring.  Reader Tolbert Legg send this over to me, and I knew it had to be posted.  This story is about one of my favorite brands: Colonel Littleton. …

It’s October.  It feels like Fall took forever to get here.  2020 has been weird in a lot of ways – including the feeling of ctime.  I think of that scene in True Detective where Matthew McConaughey espouses that ‘time is a flat circle’.  Almost overnight, the highs are in…