family
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Celebrating My Brother, And Brothers Everywhere
My older brother Russ is, and always has been, a fantastic brother. Maybe I’m a little partial, but I know my younger sister would agree. Calm, patient, and level-headed, he’s always been the rock of our sibling relationship. A quiet man with a wickedly dry sense of humor, he never fails to make us laugh. Continue reading
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Great-Aunt Myrtie (Was A Bad Girl)
Things are getting entirely too heavy these days, so I’m going to post a distraction and write a little about my great-aunt Myrtie. Myrtie was my maternal grandfather’s half-sister, but he never made a distinction about the “half”; she was his sister, and that’s all there was to it from his point of view. My Continue reading
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Laughing with Lila Mae: The Monkey Joke
If there was one thing our father Richard loved, it was aggravating his mother-in-law, Lila Mae. First of all, she was the definition of gullible, and secondly, she was a good sport. Once, around 1974, Mamaw Lila was visiting and on Sunday, we all piled into the chocolate brown Ford LTD and headed to Sears Continue reading
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Remembering Kate: A Southern Beauty Shop Legacy
Our paternal grandmother, Sally Kate, was a beautician. Not a hair designer, nor a hairstylist…a beautician. Now, she would use the word “hairdresser” sometimes in the 1970s, as a nod to the more modern terminology, and as an acknowledgment that she could actually dress hair; but she usually described herself as a beautician, because it Continue reading
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