Howlin' At The Dixie Moon

Howlin' At The Dixie Moon is a compilation of stories by award winning newspaper columnist Don Lively. The book is down home Southern Humor at it's finest. If you're from the South, or from any place in rural America, you'll recognize yourself or someone you know in these pages. You may not have known of the author's Uncle Enoch but you have legendary members of your own family whose tales are still being told years after they are gone. You might have never heard of Danny's Dairy Bar but there was some place very much like it in the young years of your past where you and your friends hung out. You were probably never sprayed point blank by a skunk in his last defiant act, or chased out of a cypress swamp by a flaming ghost but you've probably had your own similar misadventures. As long as there's a place called Dixie, as long as the American landscape remains mostly rural, as long as there are dirt roads and peculiar kinfolk and peanut patches and a vast array of folks who proudly call themselves Southerners, there will be stories told. This book will keep the reader smiling, laughing and occasionally shedding a nostalgic tear or two and recalling a time that was a little easier, a little slower paced and a whole lot of fun.

Don Lively is a Southern writer and humorist who comes by his storytelling honestly. He is an award winning columnist for the Waynesboro (GA) True Citizen and author of this humorous, touching and inspirational new collection, Howlin' At The Dixie Moon. The book is a compilation of some of the best columns from his years as a featured writer. He grew up in a loud and rowdy Dixie family that thrives on swapping tales both true and tall. Don's experiences, from growing up on a dirt farm in the South, through his years in the Rocky Mountain West and a career in law enforcement, to his current roles as newspaper columnist and reporter have given him a unique outlook on life. He is a retired police officer and detective, father to three grown children and grandfather to two grandkids, He lives in the Georgia woods with two worthless dogs of questionable breed that adopted him. He writes mostly about life in the Blessed South, but, having traveled extensively throughout all fifty states and a few other parts of the planet, some of his tales take place outside the boundaries of the Mason-Dixon line.