A M Garner: Talking in Accents

The South is a big region in a big country.That's the main thing. We're "so deep into that landscape we did not realize/ we'd been talking in accents all our lives" --Pierce Pettis, "Little River Canyon"

Friday, November 20, 2020

Pecan Pie Season

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Thanksgiving is next week. On the way back from Mobile, we stopped by the open air market right off the interstate near Clanton and picked ...

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Brinkmann, again

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For me, there is only one smoker. The Brinkmann. Cheap, reliable, simple enough for anyone to use, must have been a million sold. You can...

Monday, May 27, 2019

The Ordinary Miracle of the Resurrection of the Brinkmann Smoker

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We and our friends had tried them all. For us, the start was the old charcoal Brinkmann, the heavy bullet-shaped smoker that required gettin...

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Something Warm

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OK. It's January 31 and social media is a meltdown of hate-talk. The weather lately has been cold/gray/dreary, but today the sun came ...

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Twentyfive things you might not know about me (repost)

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I do not usually participate in the getting-to-know-you, getting-to-know-ALL-about-you exercises that make the rounds. But I did feel gui...

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The Squash Parade (repost) Although I only saw the film "Doc Hollywood" once, several years ago, it was one of the few movi...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

How To Tell If You Are In A Flannery O' Connor Story

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(with regards to our friends at The Toast, who started this with Brit Lit) HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE IN A FLANNERY O'CONNOR STORY Every...

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Anita Miller Garner: I'm a reading/writing overenthusiast who teaches on a university campus. My collection of short stories UNDENIABLE TRUTHS from Rank Stranger Press is set to be released November 1, 2009.

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