Author Archives: Scott M

Chapter 60: Look Away, Dixieland

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Scott M

Let me set the stage for the next few entries…. My college was Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.  At the time I attended school there it was an all-male college. And for those of you with dirty minds, … Continue reading →

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Chapter 59: All the Sad Young Men

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Scott M

I think I’ve been away from this blog for a while because I’ve been trying not to write this entry…. I didn’t want to write this.  I didn’t mean to write this…but I need to write this before I can … Continue reading →

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Just so you know….

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Scott M

I may be a little slower in posting to this blog over the next few months.  My real job is taking its toll…. But I am thinking and planning my future posts.  Future titles include: 1.  White People Don’t Drive … Continue reading →

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Chapter 58: The Wiseman

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Scott M

We’re going to get really heavy Southern Gothic here.  Just give me time to get there…. Let me start by saying, after 20 years in a Corporate office, I started working from home a couple of weeks ago.  I’m going … Continue reading →

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Chapter 57: Illusions

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Scott M

It’s funny that you never really realize you live in a illusionary world until the illusion breaks. I can pinpoint the first moment the illusion crumbled for me.  I came home from college, my  Junior year, and there was a … Continue reading →

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Chapter 56: Integration-Part 2: Negroes, Lesbians and Yankees, Oh My!

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Scott M

Once integration happened, it was really no big deal to most of us.  Some of our parents, however, never recovered. The South in those days, at least in small towns like ours, was built a lot of unbendable, undefinable, unpublished, … Continue reading →

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Chapter 55: Integration- Part 1: Or When Sunny Gets Blue

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Scott M

I’ve said it before, growing up in Danville, Virginia in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s was like growing up in South Africa under Apartheid. Brown vs the Board of Education took many years to be fully implemented in the … Continue reading →

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Chapter 54: A College Letter Home from Washington and Lee on Derby Day

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Scott M

Last year my Mother moved – well, we forced her to move- to, an Assisted Living Facility.  She had reached the point of beyond crazy that wasn’t just Southern.  It was physical and pathological.  She had some mini-strokes and was … Continue reading →

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Chapter 53: Easter: Or How I Became a Fashion Victim

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Scott M

I come from a very presentational family. Easter always brought out the best and worst of that trait. To give you a perspective, my mother was a Cheerleader.  My sister was a dancer and a Majorette.  My niece is following in … Continue reading →

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By the Time I Get To Phoenix

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Scott M

I just don’t get Phoenix, Arizona.  There is something about this place that just isn’t natural. I think the main reasons I don’t get it are that I’m both Southern and from the East Coast.  It’s just too different.  It … Continue reading →

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