Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 11, 2020

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“You never know what’s in a person’s heart until they’re tested, do you?”   ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 4, 2020

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.” ― Joe Frazier     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 27, 2020

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“. . . you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.” —Flannery O’Conner   Photo:  Deborah Fagan Carpenter  

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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, April 13, 2020

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

    “Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass.”   ― Rebecca Wells,  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, April 6, 2020

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be ‘beloved.’ I now know that no … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 30, 2020

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” —Lilly Pulitzer     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“……….. knowing what must be done does away with fear.” — Rosa Parks Image: Catherine Barton

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 9, 2020

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn’t call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 2, 2020

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” —Harriet van Horne or Julia Child   Photos: Deborah Fagan Carpenter 

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