Life happens in a boarding house, especially if your mother is prone to rent to male boarders...
My mother is fond of saying that life is full of situations and that it's up to us to make the most of them, good or bad. I've decided that at eleven and three-quarters years of age, my life is the crossroads of bad situations and there isn't a lot to made of them.
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Southern ways, especially southern society's ways, always lends itself to entertaining stories...
I had managed to get through Ash Wednesday with my vow of abstinence intact. The ball gowns were divided into those destined for the cleaners, and those to be left at the Junior League Thrift Shop for recycling by some future patronesses of the Queens of the Nile or the Maids of Ophelia, better known as MOO...
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Story ideas pop up in the oddest situations, inspired by life's little moments...
The Aging Lothario hangs out in the coffee bar, surrounded by older men he tolerates as the young women flitting in and out with their seventies sunglasses, stacked shoes, and short shorts ignore him. They stand at the bar flipping long locks of hair over their shoulders, intent on talking over each other in their need to be the center of attention.
He listens to his companions with half an ear and finally...