So Long, Old Friend

by Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

Before we say goodbye, we should probably say its name correctly.

It’s The Farmers’ Almanac, with the apostrophe after the s. Not The Farmer’s Almanac, as…

Happy New Year, Y’all

The South has always taken New Year’s a little seriously… and a little sideways.

Back before the Peach ever dropped in Atlanta, before everything had a sponsor and a drone shot, New Year’s meant piling into…

The Things We Leave Behind

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

My kids gave me a copy of the new Farmer’s Almanac for Christmas. And in it was an article about the growing concern over Space Junk. That’s the…

A Eulogy for the American Penny

A Eulogy for the American Penny

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

Well, it finally happened.

After 235 years of loyal service, the American penny, the humble copper(ish) coin that bought our childhood…

AI in the South

AI In the South

by Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm.

Every industry.
Every city.
Every workplace.
Every teenager with a cracked iPhone screen and unlimited Wi-Fi.

But…

Cornbread Confessions

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

I like cornbread. In fact, I love cornbread.

I may not always say it out loud, but I love it in a way that feels both emotional and slightly spiritual, like…

The South and Electric Cars

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

The South and electric cars have a relationship best described as “polite but cautious,” like two people at a church dinner, eyeing each other across the deviled eggs.…

The Buggy Battle 

The Buggy Battle

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

There are many problems facing modern society: global conflict, inflation, artificial intelligence, the price of eggs. But none, in my opinion, is more pressing than the ongoing…

What Happened to Ricky Fitzpatrick?

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

The other day, I made the mistake of Googling myself. This is always risky, because you never know if you’re going to find a nice article about something…

Backing In

By Ricky Fitzpatrick for The Creative South

Somewhere along the way…quietly, without a public vote or a town hall meeting…the South adopted a bizarre new trend: backing into parking spaces.

Nobody knows where it came from. Nobody recalls…