If You Boys’ll Just Help Me Flip This Car Over….. (A Grandmothah Bennett Story)

This is going to be difficult to tell.  Mostly because I am already laughing.  It was unseasonably warm for mid-October.  We were still riding with our windows down.  This is something that people who live in small, country towns do--or used to do.  I don't know about now, because I haven't lived there in over …

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When You Get To Be My Age, Doll Baby, You Just Don’t Give A……

Grandmothah Bennett was my step-grandmothah.    She did not want her son to marry Mothah.  He did anyway.  She was pissed.  He did not give a damn.  She did come around after a few years 😉 I think..... Grandmothah Bennett would show up at Robin's Nest Farm (the name of my stepfathah's farm, and where …

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Flawless, I am not….

         Wednesday morning, The Middle Child walked into my room dressed in business attire.  I found this a little odd, since she was taking the PSAT and would not even see her business ed teacher.  "Why the hell do you have that on?" I asked.  "The teacher is going to actually check and see if …

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The African Mask

I am a creature of habit.  I do not like change.  My Daddy is an architect, and when I was seven years old, he bartered his architecture services for a share in a condo at Litchfield Beach, SC. That condo is where I still vacation every year, even now, 38 years later. I am telling …

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