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A child in need
There is a child, a little girl who is five years old, who needs some help. She is a student of my friend Katrina, who teaches in the very school I went to as a child. Every teacher ends up … Continue reading
How time slips away
Not so long ago, I asked my mother to play “The Entertainer,” by Scott Joplin. She said, “I don’t know that song.” If you ever wondered how you would know childhood was definitively over, I can tell you that it … Continue reading
Posted in 441, getting older, Mama, middle-aged, Rural Georgia, South
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One day,
when I was about eight or nine years old, back when I looked like Billy Carter, my cousins, Tonya and Beverly, and I were down at our Papa and Granny’s house, messing around in the yard, probably turning things over … Continue reading
Trash
Where I grew up, in rural Georgia, it was a 15-minute trip to get to town. Town-town, where you’d get your hair cut or buy a pair of shoes or real groceries or underpants, not Rentz, where you might run … Continue reading
Posted in 441, Grandmother, Rural Georgia, Slattery, Trash
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Just like a Slattery 