Charly’s New Back Yard

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Sheila Morris

OMG – do you drink it?

About Sheila Morris

Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother. In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality. She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019. She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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17 Responses to Charly’s New Back Yard

  1. Bob Slatten says:
    May 8, 2017 at 6:51 am

    A pool! Lucky dog!

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  2. Wayside Artist says:
    May 8, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Charly does not approve, not yet. Ha! Her expression, as always, says it all!!

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  3. kirbysculinarycrawl says:
    May 8, 2017 at 10:01 am

    Aww…Charly’s too cute. Can’t wait to see that pool in person today. New place looks great!

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  4. Susanne says:
    May 8, 2017 at 7:44 pm

    Imagine the pee if she DID down a cement pond quantity?

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  5. Animalcouriers says:
    May 9, 2017 at 3:56 am

    Charlie will hopefully learn that this is a good place to cool off. If this is the standard of the new place, you’re all going to settle in well!

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  6. Animalcouriers says:
    May 9, 2017 at 3:57 am

    Damn you autocorrect, why can’t it be Charly?

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  7. diannegray says:
    May 9, 2017 at 4:12 pm

    I love your new digs! and I’m pretty sure Charly will know what all that water is for when the temperature rises 🙂

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  8. Miss Harper Lee says:
    May 24, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    Maybe if the hot young pool boy brings treats, Charly will learn to love the pool. 😉

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  9. bernard25 says:
    May 29, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    Bonsoir ou bonjour SHEILA

    Tiens je pense à toi

    Aux gentils messages que tu m’apportes sur mon blog

    C’est comme un rayon de soleil

    Ceux-ci me mettent du bleu au cœur et celui-ci resplendit de joie

    Quel bonheur que tu me donnes

    Que de joie j’éprouve

    Je tiens à te remercier

    Belle journée ou belle soirée

    Bisous Bernard

    Un Peu De Tendresse

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