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Chapter 8: The Me & Susan Years

My new roommate Susan had just graduated from Memphis State but was still working at Chili's with us. She was an only child, and when she...

Chapter 7: Young Urban Professionals

Some time around 1988 I finally broke up with Casey for good and moved into a house with my brother, who had now graduated high school...

Chapter 6: Memphis

Not long after Scotty and I broke up, I met Casey, a boy from Iowa who was living in Mississippi. He worked construction, only listened...

Deep Dive: The Boyfriend who was My First

My "gap year" between high school and when I started community college, Shelley and I became obsessed with what we referred to as "Rude...

Chapter 5: What Should Have Been My College Years

I had planned to move on to my next boyfriend chapter, but as I began writing it, I realized that I had some other things I needed to...

Deep Dive: My Boyfriends

I realize that I kind of skimmed over my boyfriend history in my previous high school posts, so let's take a deep dive now into that area...

Deep Dive: High School Choir

In my last post I gave you an overview of high school: Who my friends were, how we became friends, a little bit of who we were and what...

Chapter 4: The 80s

Surely there was no better time to be a teenager than the mid-80s. Back when mullets were cutting-edge New Wave hair cuts and...

Chapter 3: The Awkward Teen Years

I was looking for a good 80s lyric to title this post and seriously considered this one for a minute: "Out from the ruins, out from the...

Childhood: Chapter 2

Subtitle: The Mississippi Years When I was in sixth grade, our parents sat us down at Family Home Evening and told us that Dad was...

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I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.

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