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.
Oh, Luanne, looks like we’re going to be raising another little Gamecock fan – she LOVED it! Sigh. She much prefers the football game to our basketball games!
That’s what we’re hoping – Pretty and i think we might have been rushing the basketball because it’s our “thing.” For one thing, she prefers the outdoors over any inside activities…we’ll wait another year for indoor sports!
I have no idea what the gator bowl is, and I am not going to google it. I supose it is football? But I know what a child looks like when they are having total fun, so bring on the gators. And, as far as the cats? Cats are extraordinarily brilliant judges of character. They watch, and hide, (smart creatures). They only like people they consider worthy, and very few are worthy of a cat’s genuine affection. You just passed both the cats and the childs test of a good person. What more could you possibly want in life?
You know, Cindy, you are right – I’ve really had more in this life than I could have ever dreamed of having. I realize almost every day now how much I owe my parents and grandparents for the sacrifices they made for me to live with these blessings…
As for the Gator Bowl, you are too funny – it was a football game – in the South football is a form of religion – Ella loved her very first game which had a lot to do with the pageantry, people, and mostly, popcorn.
The cat cafe hahaha. How sweet! And that granddaughter, too. How did she like the game?!
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Oh, Luanne, looks like we’re going to be raising another little Gamecock fan – she LOVED it! Sigh. She much prefers the football game to our basketball games!
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That is wonderful though. Maybe she needs to be a little older for basketball?
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That’s what we’re hoping – Pretty and i think we might have been rushing the basketball because it’s our “thing.” For one thing, she prefers the outdoors over any inside activities…we’ll wait another year for indoor sports!
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That’s a good idea. She’ll probably forget she was ever there before!
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I must say, no matter the venue, they do feed you well in the South!!
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Hahaha…very true! Eating is very popular down here – for everyone!!
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I have no idea what the gator bowl is, and I am not going to google it. I supose it is football? But I know what a child looks like when they are having total fun, so bring on the gators. And, as far as the cats? Cats are extraordinarily brilliant judges of character. They watch, and hide, (smart creatures). They only like people they consider worthy, and very few are worthy of a cat’s genuine affection. You just passed both the cats and the childs test of a good person. What more could you possibly want in life?
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You know, Cindy, you are right – I’ve really had more in this life than I could have ever dreamed of having. I realize almost every day now how much I owe my parents and grandparents for the sacrifices they made for me to live with these blessings…
As for the Gator Bowl, you are too funny – it was a football game – in the South football is a form of religion – Ella loved her very first game which had a lot to do with the pageantry, people, and mostly, popcorn.
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That photo caught her at the perfect second. I can’t tell if she’s more focused on the game or the popcorn!
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Caroline took that photo – it’s now one of my favorites! I can tell you the popcorn won easily!
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Looks like everyone is happy with the menus!
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Apparently!! Certainly an uptick in traffic!!
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You are clearly being taken over by cats. You can’t say you weren’t warned!
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I remember for sure that you warned me early on in the CPK days…you have clearly been there, done that!
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Cats are highly discriminating in their tastes. You are clearly among the blessed and chosen.
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Thank you. You wouldn’t believe how much I’ve missed Carport Kitty since she’s been gone.
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