This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 10, 2021

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I am an old Southern woman, and I’m supposed to wear funny clothes, ugly hats, and dig in the dirt.

I did not make the rules.”

— Ouiser Boudreaux,

Steel Magnolias

Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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2 Responses to This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 10, 2021

  1. Randall O’Brien says:
    May 10, 2021 at 9:58 PM

    The rules apparently apply to old Southern men, too.

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