The Good News Club

Or at least that's what I think it was called...

There was this house in my hometown of Jackson, Tennessee. I spent most of my childhood growing up across the street from that house. It played a pivotal role in many vignettes in my memories from 1985 to 1997.

When I was a teenager, one of my few serious high school girlfriends would live there. It was a pretty awkward relationship at best, not least b…