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Portrait of My Southern Grandmothers: How Matriarchs Shape a Character Arc
I come from a very long line of Southerners. My family can trace its roots back as early as 1710 in South Carolina, with ancestors fighting in both the Revolutionary War and the War Between the States. We then put aside our gray uniforms and in the 1960s my great-grandfather led the charge to integrate Tuscaloosa County schools.
Interrupted, An Essay in Fragments: Or, Write Like a Mother
I have emailed and texted myself when I have an idea and my phone, but not a piece of paper and pen. What I like best is the moment when the kids are at school, and I sit in my brown reclining chair with a cup of coffee and maybe a cat next to me, or somewhere nearby, and I have time to think deep thoughts. Those days are rare and precious.