Tag Archives: Rick Bragg

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 20, 2020

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“How in the world do you tell a Southerner, in a time of crisis, to be ‘physically distant?’ How do you tell one of the most gregarious, social people on the planet to pull together, but apart?”     —Rick … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 2, 2019

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 19, 2019

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.” — Rick Bragg, My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South Photo: Deborah Fagan … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 10, 2019

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice.”   —Rick Bragg,  My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South 

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 28, 2019

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I wonder if, north of here, they might even run out of stories someday. It may seem silly, but it is cold up there, too cold to mosey, to piddle, to loafer, and summer only lasts a week and a … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 15, 2018

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.” —Rick Bragg   Photo: Brad Frost

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