By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary Today, I celebrated International Women’s Day by buying my wife a valuable lottery ticket, potentially worth $20 million dollars. I had to driv... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary “I am a little old woman who lives in an assisted living facility…” her email began. Her following message was about the length of “War and Pea... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary Happy 11th birthday, Becca. I hope you eat enough cake to qualify as a misdemeanor. There is one thing I want you to remember on this wondrous... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary Ash Wednesday. The first day of Lent. I saw him in a Birmingham supermarket. He was young. Latino. Maybe 11 or 12. He was wandering through the... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary Father Dave was a good guy. You would have liked him. He had white hair. A warm smile. Good sense of humor. He was Irish to the core. He was on... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary The sun was setting over Hartford, Connecticut. The sky was peach ice cream. The Mark Twain House was lit by a perfect dusk, and the crickets t... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary It was the dogs. The dogs are what got me. When you tour the 9/11 Memorial Museum, you see a lot. You see twisted steel girders. Baby-faced por... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary Ah, New York City. There is a slight chill. The city is full of Midwesterners, all wearing white Reeboks, all staring straight upward. My wife... Read more
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary “Dear Sean, how can we save this country?” came the email. The writer of this letter lives in West Virginia. His name is Roger. I have no idea... Read more
Sean of the South: Sleepless in New Orleans
By Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South Commentary “It’s my birthday,” the email said, “and my dad forgot me…” The young man writing to me just turned 14 years old. We’re going to call him Mark.... Read more