We get a lot of slow-motion tourists in Fairhope, who drive at the speed of sleep so they can see everything unique our town has to offer, like stores and trees and stop signs. When I’m impatient with their slacked pace, I try to remember ...
Some parents dream their daughters will become the Mayor or a heart surgeon, but mine longed for the Doxology with a side of the Hallelujah Chorus — all from memory if possible. They would have traded me to the hippies, if it meant I came ...
It’s obvious what some of you received for Christmas. The commercial said, “Go ahead and wear them to the grocery store. No one will know.” Umm . . . we know. It’s obvious you are wearing slippers in public. We’re on to you. We don’t think you’re cute. ...
“Girlfriend!” she yelled across the Piggly Wiggly parking lot. “Where ‘ya been?” “Well, Lord Almighty! It can’t be you,” her friend hollered back. The trunks of their cars stood wide open with groceries still in the buggies while they embraced and talked at the same time.I ...
Harrison was a smart little toddler. Before he could speak, I would ask him to locate different countries on a globe, and he found them every time. Most adults couldn’t do that. He walked at 14 months old, which for babies was on the late side, ...
In my long history of exploding food (technically, the hushpuppies weren’t my creation. I was only an observer – but there’s a biscuit story I’ve yet to tell . . . ), I’ve recently added a new exploding meatloaf. My grandmother once dropped her heaviest ...