It’s Been Said
I remember the woman interviewing me was using an actual pad and pen. I liked that. It felt good to watch our conversation filling up the pages of her notebook. It reminded me of a quote from Sequoyah, a Native American hero who made it his life’s work to give his people access to the “talking leaves” of the white man. Sequoyah spent twelve years in the early 1800′s paring down thousands of native sounds
Living Now in the Southern Quote
My husband and I had a toddler and a preschooler when we began to seriously consider having another child. For us, the timing was looking like now or never. We didn’t want to wait too long in between number two and number three. Our first two were close. We knew we would want that same experience for the next child, if there was one. After a
George Brett in the Southern Quote
He was born May 15th, 1953, in Glen Dale, the second youngest child in a sports loving family in Glen Dale, West Virginia. George grew up dreaming of becoming a major league baseball player like his older brother. He was eighteen years old when the Kansas City Royals gave him a shot, picking him in the second round of the 1971 draft. He was a sure-handed,
Larry McMurtry in the Southern Quote
He was born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas but he grew up on a ranch outside Archer City. In years to come the area would become the model for a town called Thalia that appeared in much of his fiction. Larry McMurtry’s life has been one filled with books and a love of bookstores. His first start in the business was a job managing