Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 19, 2020

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.” — John Robert Lewis, Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 12, 2020

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.” —Eudora Welty     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves.” — Pat Conroy  Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 21, 2020

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“When it’s time to die, go ahead and die, and when it’s time to live, live. Don’t sort-of-maybe live, but live like you’re going all out, like you’re not afraid.” —Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees  Photo: Deborah … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 14, 2020

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing — some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey — shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 31, 2020

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 24, 2020

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

I think people in the north and the east   and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they’re humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I’m just more drawn to … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 17, 2020

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 10, 2020

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, its a sip of wine…it’s summertime! —Kenny Chesney Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 3, 2020

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I said I was a stranger here. “Ain’t no strangers here, baby,” she said, and gave me a merry smile.”   —Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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