Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 21, 2022

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” — Maya Angelou Art Work/”Searching for America,” Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 31 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.” ― Mark Twain … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 24, 2022

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 17, 2022

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

There’s a reason we live in the South. We’re not built for this. —Anonymous Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 10, 2022

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “People complain about the bad things that happen to ‘em that they don’t deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things” —Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”    ― William Faulkner     Altered Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Thursday, December 30, 2021

Posted on December 30, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all. —Pat Conroy    HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM PORCHSCENE! Art: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 13, 2021

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Let’s put just a few more strings of lights on Daddy’s bass boat and call it Christmas.”       Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 6, 2021

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The earliest memories I have of my mother must have been when I was around five. One was baking cakes, which she loved to do. I can see them now ready in the pantry for Christmas; there was fruit cake, … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, November 15, 2021

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The question is: how to account for man’s wickedness? Biologists, for some reason, find it natural to look for a wicked monkey in the family tree. I find it more reasonable to suppose that monkeys are blameless and that something … Continue reading →

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