Category Archives: Holidays

Happy New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2019

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

”Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley   Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 16, 2019

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Honey, if I had time to make Christmas trees out of tomato cages, I wouldn’t need Publix to cook my turkey.”     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving from Porchscene

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Mary Prater

    “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”   ― William Faulkner

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