Category Archives: photography

easter birthdays, shanghai, champagne and family

Posted on April 17, 2019 by

My birthday this year is on Easter Sunday, April the 21st. I was born on an Easter Sunday in 1946 and my birthday has been on Easter Sunday one other time in 1957 when I was eleven years old. Get … Continue reading →

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BREAKING NEWS: BABY GIRL OTW!

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

Pretty Two and Number One Son – Pretty Three? Pretty hears the Big News – and is thrilled! Pretty was with our good friend Brenda this week when she found out we are having a granddaughter in October – and … Continue reading →

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junior class secretary in 1963? seriously?

Posted on April 7, 2019 by

I would like to say this was photo shopped by my friend James Ray Couser from West Columbia, Texas  when I saw it on his Facebook page today, but I pulled out my 1963 Gusher yearbook and there it was… … Continue reading →

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sheroes on sheroes: Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Shirley Chisholm

Posted on March 19, 2019 by

Much has been said about the new look of Congress as the halls of our nation’s highest legislative chambers began to swarm with new members who were  sworn in and trying to find their offices during the first week of … Continue reading →

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wonder women – southern style (part II)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by

A politician/philanthropist from Faith, North Carolina who settled in Charleston; an attorney who moved to Columbia from Key West, Florida; a midlands YWCA executive director from Detroit, Michigan — three women whose different, yet similar, stories were chronicled in Southern … Continue reading →

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wonder women – southern style (Part I)

Posted on March 12, 2019 by

Don’t get me wrong. The men whose stories were included in Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home are just as important as these women I celebrate today, but it is Women’s History Month after all. As I wrote … Continue reading →

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the 21 club

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

Although South Carolina has been my home state for nearly 50 years, I was born and grew up in Texas. During one of my countless classic goodbye scenes with my parents in my early twenties, daddy quoted one of his … Continue reading →

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red rants and raves over lady gaga and the president’s fixer

Posted on February 27, 2019 by

Oh my, oh my. Sometimes I long for the wit and wisdom of The Red Man who, sadly, left Pretty and me three years ago this month at the ripe old age of 14. Red, our rescued Welsh terrier who … Continue reading →

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the battle my grandmother lost

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

my early years in my hometown of rural Richards, Texas (circa 1949)   my dad and me at a family picnic in matching shirts made by my grandmother (circa 1951)   a birthday party dress made by my grandmother (circa … Continue reading →

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which anniversary is this? better ask Pretty

Posted on February 8, 2019 by

fun with friends at DeBordieu, 2007 So Pretty and I are having dinner with our friends Nekki and Francie after the South Carolina women’s basketball game last night, and the conversation turned to our anniversary which is this Saturday, February 9th. … Continue reading →

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