Advice for Surviving Thanksgiving Family Gatherings has become an American Tradition along with interviewing holiday travelers at the airport.
I LOVE Hallmark Christmas Movies… Unrealistic ?? Sure, but have you checked out “realistic” lately? A lot of it SUCKS!… Escape to one of Hallmarks lovely villages with perfect snow and…
When life doesn’t go your way and dawbers are down… take the advice of The Jesse W. Grainger High School cheerleaders and SHAKE IT OFF!
All of these “things” were a part of “growing up”…. once upon a time in America. They still should be for your children and grandchildren.
“I looked around and they were all better than I was.” for 97% of “phenoms” that harsh reality looms out there somewhere. It may come as soon as they leave home… or later… or not at all.
Home Towns & Alma Maters are “things” most of us have. They are part of who you are wherever you go throughout Life. Or are they….?
Today I’ll be singing Amazing Grace or similar old-fashioned hymns at The First Baptist Church paying my respects to “Mr Pittman”. That’s What Mr Pittman Would Do.
Everyone comes from Somewhere. Someone knew him/her before they “became famous”, especially in…. “a small town”.
In a small town, “celebrity” can be a very relative honor. … Did Maceo Parker “qualify” by seeing Ava Gardner in the S&W Cafeteria?
Living by a Really Big River – The Mississippi – can get kinda scary…. Remember that commercial…. “not nice to fool with Mother Nature”!
“Designer Hillary” and “Realtor David” are in/around the Raleigh-area filming this season’s popular HGTV “real estate reality” show….
IMO, “Really Good” carries much more sincerity than an insistence of “Best” when describing one’s personal opinion of any experience. That is a “Really Good” way to describe my past 48 hours…..
ALERT: This is another of those insufferably syrupy “BobLee’s Home Town Memories” columns…. If you grew up in a small town around the 60s you surely had “a George Denmark”. How could a small town exist without “a George Denmark”. Everybody knew “George” even if they didn’t know him personally.
“You probably don’t remember Jimmy Gautier; but he…… ” so began the recent e-missive from P. Coleman Buck, longtime “of Counsel” for BobLee Global LLC. Not remember Jimmy Gautier ?? Everybody remembers a “Jimmy Gautier” by various names.
I suppose every municipality has a bunch of’em. States like Texas, Louisiana, Maine and California grow’em by the bushel. A “Mayberry” usually only has one or two at most. That makes’em special. Ours was “Butch”. Mayberry’s was Ernest T. Bass.