Category: Writer’s Journal

Writer’s journal about my life, my Georgia, my family.

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28.02.2022

Redux: Mitchell and Warm Springs; A Link Between Two Small Georgia Towns and President Roosevelt

/ Connections, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

This is a republishing of my earlier post about the links between two small Georgia towns, links that…

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14.02.2022

Connections: A Georgia Soldier, Two Presidents, and the TITANIC Disaster

/ Connections, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

If you have toured the stately antebellum homes in Roswell, Georgia you likely know that President Theodore Roosevelt’s…

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28.01.2022

Connections: Georgians and the Spanish War, Arizona Troops in Georgia, and a Fight Erupts to Save Albany’s “Big Oak”

/ Connections, Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

By 1898, “Yellow journalists” had made “muckraking” articles about corruption, anarchy, war and murder the fodder for the…

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10.01.2022

Redux: A Tale of Murder Unfolds in a Small Georgia Town

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

Responding to constant reminders from you-know -who that I needed to “go through my things” and get rid…

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04.01.2022

A Child Walks off Into the Woods

/ Deep South Stories, Writer's Journal

We lived in an idyllic but isolated place in the middle of a longleaf pine forest, half a…

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19.12.2021

A Compact Calamity in Our 1951 Henry J

/ Deep South Stories, Humor, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

                                             Baby at the Wheel We are traveling a red-clay road through September-dry farmland. My mother (we…

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09.12.2021

Connections: Drama at a River Crossing

/ Connections, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

Bridges are often crossroads of imagination. I encountered this scene one fall day when I stopped to check…

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08.12.2021

Atlanta Confidential: Christmas Catastrophy Unfolds As My Aunts Are Tossed Out of the South’s Finest Department Store

/ Deep South Stories, Humor, Writer's Journal

(Note: I have many new readers and am continuing to repost some of my favorite earlier publications and…

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06.12.2021

Our Labradore “Peachie” and the Great Wall

/ For the Love of Labs: Our Labrador Retrievers Peachie, Emily, and Tiny Lab, Humor, Writer's Journal

Christmas is a great time to have a dog or to receive a dog as a gift. Our…

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05.11.2021

A Pardon for the Confederate Turkey!

/ Deep South Stories, Humor, Writer's Journal

We have all watched the scene dozens of times in TV reruns of the film Gone with the…

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