Tag Archives: The South

Chapter 66: Mad About the Boy

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Scott M

Everyone one should have one John Ashley in their life.  But only one… One is a voyage of youthful self-discovery, more than one is a sign of self-destruction and co-dependency setting you up for an awkward intervention by your friends….. … Continue reading →

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Chapter 64: After The Fall

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Scott M

I’ve had a couple of glasses of wine… I had to…or this chapter would never been written…. If you want to be an honest blogger- or storyteller-the hard part is telling the truth even when it hurts.  Or when it … Continue reading →

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Chapter 63: A Sense of Place

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Scott M

I just got home from home… First of all, you have to understand that home is a complex term for me.  It’s more a feeling than a place- or it’s more of a sense of a place…. I just spent … Continue reading →

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Chapter 62: Easter Parade

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Scott M

Easter always brings out the bitch in me…. It’s a strange holiday for me… Part of me resents that the whole world- at least in the USA and at my gym- stops for a purely Christian holiday when we should … Continue reading →

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Chapter 61: Bosom Buddies

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Scott M

My Best Friend had Heart Surgery this week… I don’t like to think of us as old enough to have to face these issues, but I guess we are… And “Best Friend” is a very inclusive, non-exclusive term for me…I … Continue reading →

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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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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 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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