Adam Armour
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Tupelo, MS, United States
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Slowly dying while trapped in a Kroger parking lot
With a small fortune in groceries in the backseat — save for the family-size sack of kettle-cooked potato chips I’d extricated from the sea of plastic bags to tide me → Read More
Netflix show 'Wednesday' is impossible to hear over hooting neighbors
I was trying to catch up on the popular Netflix show “Wednesday” in one of my rare attempts to be only slightly behind with some pop culture phenomenon, but found → Read More
Frigidaire laundry center gushes soapy water all over kitchen floor
I believe the word I used upon discovery of the small pool of dirty water at the bottom of the emptied washing machine was “huh,” although it very well could → Read More
Excitement and concerns over my 6-year-old's 'wiggly' tooth
Arlie — that’s my 6-year-old daughter, in case you didn’t know — greeted me at the entrance to my parents’ house with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for moments → Read More
Making an emergency toilet paper run to Kroger before work
Roughly 37 minutes before I had to be at work, my 6-year-old daughter alerted me to the emergency, albeit indirectly. → Read More
'Pawn Stars' star Rick Harrison pays $95K for old Apple and I'm supposed to sleep at night
There came a point — probably about the fourth or fifth minute into her profanity-laden rant — in which I realized Mandy was genuinely upset by the episode of “Pawn → Read More
Sherra Owen keeps precious holiday memories on display inside her New Albany home
Every day is Christmas Day at Sherra Owen’s house. Or at least one room of it. → Read More
I could use some of my wife's telepathic abilities right about now
I squinted my eyes really hard and waited for the insightful little voice to tell me what I needed to know. → Read More
Managing a kitchen full of flies and a stubborn window
The housefly tapped against the kitchen window, blind-idiot bumping against the glass over and over as if asking some unseen creature on the other side to let it out. → Read More
A third bowl of Golden Grahams is certain to cause suffering
Although I knew it would lead to nothing but misery, I was seriously contemplating a third bowl of Golden Grahams. → Read More
Tupelo bartending duo wins Oxford Iron Bartender competition
TUPELO • More than anything, Ali Watts and Paige Garrett just wanted to have the same kind of fun they do every Saturday night behind the bar at Harvey’s in → Read More
Struggling to help my 6-year-old complete her first-grade math homework
I stared at the last question on my daughter’s first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would cause an understanding of what it was asking → Read More
A is for Adley? More like, A is for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
It is 6:28 on a Wednesday morning, and I am attempting to rouse my daughter from her slumber-time world of fantasy with a series of semi-furious shoulder shakes and half-gentle → Read More
A sinking feeling outside a Memphis seafood restaurant
To her credit, Mandy knew our meal would be disastrous before we’d even set foot inside the restaurant. → Read More
Clumsiness, off-brand Fruit Loops and a broken bottle of Stella Artois
In my sleep-deprived state, stumbling through the kitchen in a daze, the unopened bottle of Stella Artois slipped from my hand as easily as taking a breath. → Read More
Children's nightmares, restless nights and the dawn of a terrible day
It began, as terrible days often do, in the wee hours of the morning. → Read More
Contemplating life and death with a 6-year-old at bedtime
I leaned in to give Arlie her goodnight kiss, eager to be done with our too-long bedtime ritual so that I could spend a bit of time with my wife → Read More
TJ's BBQ in Tupelo offers Southern soul food classics
If there's one thing gas stations are known for ... it's gas. But if there's a second thing, it's got to be food. This month, we dropped by three local → Read More
Disney princess quiz makes napping impossible
I had a headache, not that it seemed to matter much to Arlie. → Read More
Chaos, injury and independence at the local skating rink
I think it took somewhere between 20 minutes and an eternity to make the loop around the skating rink. By that point, our nerves had been shot, kicked a few → Read More