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IF YOU WANT MORE
- 1969 – Not Every “L” Knew She Was Being Liberated (from Not Quite the Same)
- Sleepless in Seattle – Part 3 (from Not Quite the Same)
- Sleepless in Seattle – Part 2 (from Not Quite the Same)
- Sleepless in Seattle – Part 1 (from Not Quite the Same)
- Sheila Gets a Shave (from Deep in the Heart)
- find your happy place
- memory makers over Memorial Day
- I will be missing you, Tina Turner
- Calling All Lesbians – Time to Speak Out!
- Nana, is your birthday over yet?
- Prologue to I’ll Call It Like I See It Revisited
- Economics 101 Revisited
- Epilogue For Deep in the Heart Revisited
- and then there were these Mother’s Day Moments in 2023
- making fudge with my mother
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Flannery O'Connor answered the mystery for me of why I write?
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
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Tag Archives: southern perspectives on the queer movement committed to home
Dimples, Butch, Buttercup, Sissy… Sissy?
Whenever someone asks me what I’m writing, I feel a fleeting twinge of guilty laziness for saying I continue to blog – no new book of essays, no great American novel, no legacy book for my granddaughters. This is me … Continue reading
Posted in family life, Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, photography, politics, racism, Reflections, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is, The Way Life Should Be
Tagged board games, butch, go to the head of the class board game, labels that define our sexuality, life in mid twentieth century, milton bradley games, sissy, southern perspectives on the queer movement committed to home, tv entertainment
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PRESIDENT IMPEACHED: A LESSON IN CIVICS AND THE REST OF THE STORY
And it came to pass in these days that President Donald J. Trump has undergone a three months long impeachment process which resulted in the preparation of two articles of impeachment approved by the House of Representatives in a majority … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, politics, racism, Reflections, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is
Tagged checks and balances in the constitution, civics lessons, donald trump impeached, house of representatives, impeachment process in the house, Mar-a-lago, president donald trump, senate, southern perspectives on the queer movement committed to home, speaker of the house nancy pelosi, three branches of government, Trump Tower
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text message yesterday from contributor Pat Patterson made me happy!
“Look what I just found at Strand Bookstore in NYC…” One of the contributors to Southern Perspectives, Pat Patterson a/k/a Patti O’Furniture, texted this to me yesterday afternoon…followed by “proudly asked the clerk at Strand for your book and … Continue reading
wonder women – southern style (part II)
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
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, photography, politics, racism, Reflections, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is
Tagged alliance for full acceptance, Candace Chellew-Hodge, carole stoneking, condon v haley case, Deborah Hawkins, gay and lesbian victory fund, Harriet Hancock, linda ketner, marriage equality, nekki shutt, old lesbians organizing for chance, pride parades, south carolina equality, southern perspectives on the queer movement committed to home
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on International Women’s Day, I salute Pretty
“I knew I was a lesbian, and I also knew I wouldn’t disguise who I was, because to do so would send the message to my son Drew there was something wrong with it. If I didn’t name it, if … Continue reading
holy moly – it’s a podcast!
https://libraryvoices.podbean.com/e/sheila-morris-episode-74/ Thanks so very much to Dr. Curtis Rogers, Communications Director for the South Carolina State Library, for inviting me to participate on his podcast – the opportunity was the icing on the cake following the fun panel presentation at the … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, politics, racism, Reflections, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is
Tagged dr. curtis rogers, Harriet Hancock, podcast, south carolina center for the book, southern perspectives on the queer movement committed to home, teresa williams a/k/a Pretty, usc press
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book club bonuses
The pub was packed as Pretty and I followed the hostess to a small room in the very back of the Main Street tavern known as O’Hara’s in Lexington, SC. Sounds of busy bartenders slinging ice into cocktail glasses and pulling … Continue reading
Dimples, Butch, Buttercup, Sissy… Sissy?
Pretty, the great Treasure Hunter, occasionally brings home items that fascinate. One such find this week was two versions of a board game I played as a child growing up in rural Grimes County, Texas. Before the television set took … Continue reading
USC Upstate – here we come!
The Eighth Biennial Bodies of Knowledge Symposium will be held this week at USC Upstate April 9 – 11. The theme for this year’s symposium is Creating a Better World for LGBTQ people. You gotta love it. Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, … Continue reading
I'll Call It Like I See It 