Category Archives: Southernisms

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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 9, 2019

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Did anybody remember to put the wreath and the reindeer antlers on the SUV?”

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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, November 25, 2019

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 18, 2019

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goesby so quick you can hardly catch it going.” —Tennessee Williams

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world. It hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.” —Sue Monk Kidd, The … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 4, 2019

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.” —Cormac McCarthy Photo: Ulla Mansdorfer  

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

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“And she would look out the window and see a cloud put up a mask over the secret face of the moon, and she would hear the pitiful cries of the night creatures.” —Eudora Welty, The Robber Bridegroom Photo: Deborah … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 21, 2019

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I like the South because it’s so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.” —Tom Landry

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 14, 2019

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby   Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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