It's Sunday morning circa 1987 and I can see my Grandma Rue, standing at the stove in a flowered smock dolloping hush puppy batter into hot oil. Other simmering pots hold collards and a picnic shoulder, green beans, butter beans andย potatoes. On some visits, mom goes with Granddaddy to church. Growing up in tobacco territory,ย my… Continue reading The Lost Art of Sunday Dinner
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Lost and Found
Fifteen minutes before leavingย on vacation found me crying, with a bruise forming on top of my right cheekbone. I had lost the fightย with some of the boy'sย musical gear due to my own clumsiness as I loaded it into the car and aย black eye was not the baggage I had planned on carrying with me for… Continue reading Lost and Found

