Tip toeing, I crossed the short distance across the hall to his room and lay down beside him putting my head on the pillow next to his. At eye level, the early morning sun cast a soft glow on his face and he looked like a sweet little […]
“That day I decided it didn’t matter how awkward it was to talk about. It didn’t matter what family and friends thought. It was time to walk out of the shadow and into the sun.”
Southern culture prides itself on raising boys as “real men” with short “high and tight” haircuts. I wonder? How did we Southerners evolve from the Mel Gibson look of long hair as in the movie The Patriot which took place during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) to the military […]
