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Summer

It is officially Summer at Magnolia Manse. I know it is May, and the season begins in June, but my children are out of school for two months and three weeks and that makes it summer.

This week I traveled To Chattanooga with my eleven year son, Matthew, on his class trip. We wandered the aquarium examining the fishes, telling each other everything we knew about every fish we saw. Continue reading

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My mother was a beauty queen

Really. I have an 8×10 of her with the Miss Vogel State Park Banner across her borrowed bathing suit. Then she was a contestant for Miss Georgia. She was beautiful. Like a 1940’s movie star, in the 40’s. And not the “I’m pretty and you better know it” kind. Continue reading

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