No matter how long one has lived in Louisiana, or the South for that matter, the sweet mystical hum of the Mississippi still awes and lures and surprises...yet again.  So as we make our way across the bi-state region doing advance work on the book tour, we are fascinated by the people and the food and well, the character names like "Miss Lou."  That's Mississippi-Louisiana for those like myself embarking north from McComb en route to the town of Natchez...a dream of hills and valley, green banks and cognac churns, altogether lovely in a pastoral sense, exotically old and true.  Here we are at Ginna's Diner in Bude, Mississippi meeting and greeting folks.  My rep of course is like invisible.  Where is she?  I think spaying the bill.