The new Fairhope Film Festival office is polished up and ready to go for the 6th annual Festival that features four days of award-winning films all shown in the walkable downtown area of our beautiful little town. A Cuban theme will rule the opening ...
A version of this story can be found in my book, Exploding Hushpuppies— More Stories from Home.My brother and I were settled deep into the orange shag carpet watching The Brady Bunch, when we heard an enormous crash. My mother, who had fortunately stepped into ...
PANAMA CITY, FL – (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) To me, the state line that runs between Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has always been blurred. Being born just about on top of the state line in Florala, Ala. and raised in Pensacola, Fla., I ...
It isn’t that we wanted to escape life — we just wanted to grab more of it while we could. That’s why, in spite of a recent family death, my husband Bob and I decided to go ahead and take our 25th wedding anniversary trip ...
I can’t thank you all enough for the beautiful condolences you’ve sent regarding the death of my father. It has been a terribly difficult time and with the addition of sending my youngest son to college, it seemed like the world was unraveling. Months ago, ...
It was difficult to understand him, but through our tried and true method of hand signals, pantomime, clicking sounds and eye blinks, I finally understood that my northern born husband was trying to tell me his New Jersey Great-Grandmother Donatoni made something she called gravy, ...