Mister Sweet Tea

Lazar Palnick (center) counts ballots on December 15, 2008, at Pennsylvania’s 56th electoral college after Barack Obama was elected president. He is holding the ballot box that Pennsylvania has used since 1789. He and the other two tellers are at…

Anybody who knows Arkansas Razorback football knows the story of Brandon Burlsworth, how he turned down full rides at smaller schools to walk on with the Hogs, and then made his name as the best walk-on in the history of…

Sammie Ellen and Bill McNair December 1, 2016 Sammie McNair ~ Sammie is her real first name; it’s not a nickname ~ had finished preparations for Thanksgiving, and now she was waiting for her family. Sammie’s daughters, Rita Gail Wolfe…

I knew Eric Buckner before he was Mister 10Fit, the founder, brains, and brawn of the 10 Fitness empire in central Arkansas. The advantage of knowing big shots before they are big is that you witness behavior and hear stories…

Before I travel the five hours south on U.S. 167 to see my mother in Louisiana, I always check in to check on her supply of tortillas. This is a matter of some significance. Mama grew up in El Paso…

Mister Sweet Tea is back. For seven years, Jay Grelen wrote the Sweet Tea column at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Today, he returns with the first of his Mister Sweet Tea columns, which will appear regularly on AMP. November 17, 2016…