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14.08.2020

The Packard Dies on the Road to Tybee

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

…where the sand is hard-packed and smooth, and where the water skittered up in a warm wash…

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05.08.2020

I Fell Off the Jekyll Island Bridge and Lived to Tell About It

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

Life was risky around my father. A mix of fierce physicality, keen mind and, when circumstances required, genteel…

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28.07.2020

In Search of A Yellow Dog

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

I hope the dog lovers among my readers will have realized by now that, having worked through the…

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20.07.2020

Storm Warning Too Late

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

My daughter Mary is vacationing on the Gulf of Mexico along the “panhandle” of west Florida. She sent…

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25.06.2020

“War Baby”

/ Uncategorized

I tend toward the sentimental if I indulge too much in celebrating holidays. Memorial Day, July 4th, Mother’s…

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20.06.2020

Searching for Another Peachie the Labrador Retriever

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

Life runs in cycles. Recently, we find ourselves scanning the animal rescue websites, partly  because we miss our…

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18.06.2020

Menaboni Retrospective at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art

/ Deep South Stories, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

After months of home isolation during the Covid epidemic, we took a bit of a risk to get…

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23.05.2020

Drinks with Millicent, A Rich’s Legend

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

     Rich’s in its heyday as the greatest department store in Atlanta was a sight to behold through…

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20.05.2020

Woodrow Stretcher on Rat Genes

/ Humor, Uncategorized

Saturday morning. After sleeping late, I awakened to the weekend edition of the Today Show. Twenty-something year-old women,…

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19.05.2020

A Belated Mothers’ Day Story: Blazing Salads in the Pirates Den

/ Humor, Uncategorized, Writer's Journal

My mother, a woman as demure as a kitten, refuses to have dinner in a restaurant with me…

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