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WRONG AGAIN, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WRONG AGAIN
In Albertson’s, in the fruit section, I see what I see; an elderly white man and his black female aide. At first glance it all looks so sad to me. He’s Greatest Generation aged.
Read More »LAST WORDS
I was in conversation recently with someone who had lost her father to cancer. He was a loving family man, southern style, like we raise our boys to be daddies and grandpas, and when
Read More »FAMILY REUNION
We lived on the old home place, our little red house built new in the year of my first year in school, set up under a trio of gorgeous oak trees, a plot of
Read More »THE FORGIVENESS OF DEBORAH
Where are you Deborah? What was your story, little girl? Where are you now? _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Deborah is on my mind, because I bullied her. I
Read More »Southern Hugs
By Pierre Fontenot If you’re in the vicinity of my age you might have a similar memory of first-time realizing that a lot of people in America don’t hug each other. I know.
Read More »Amazing Grace
She’s on my mind tonight — she being the old song — just notes on a piano, no singing, no need. If there is a more powerful song in the history of all songs,
Read More »That Time When We Walked Into The Wrong Church
This is how the memory goes … I don’t know where we’re going, or why, but we’ve been going all day, I’m just the little kid in the big back seat, Mom and Dad
Read More »Will There Be Rice ‘n Gravy In Heaven?
I really hope God still lets us get hungry Up There, not starving, but that good kind of hungry, like when I was a kid, working or playing, just burning calories like a tornado
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