This is a picture of my grandmother and my sister, Eleanor taken around 1962 When I was a child I lived on a dead end street in Beaver Dam Kentucky and there were no other children except my brother and sister who found their little sis a pest. My “Mamaw” lived next door to us […]
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Come All You Young Maidens
Posted in My father's mom, uncategorized on November 3, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Joy To The World
Posted in Holidays, uncategorized on December 23, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
I want to share this picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus (my mom and dad) because it represents the best of the season to me. If you will indulge me for a minute I will tell you their Christmas story. It begins in 1932 when my mom was 13. She had recently moved from the […]
And that, as they say, is that
Posted in uncategorized on October 26, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know how I expected to feel when he died. At one time I believed I loved him. At one time I believed I hated him. The last thing I thought I’d feel was indifference. We bonded over the new hope in our political situation which had been on the upswing until JFK was […]
I’m not Lydia, but we’re related
Posted in uncategorized on June 5, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Lydia Ross McGee is the main character in my new book, She Left The Babies in the Bed. She and I were born about 100 years apart in the same county in rural central Kentucky. As my father would want me to quickly point out, we are not mountain people, and I suppose I should […]
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