• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

George Rollie Adams

  • About
  • Blog
  • News & Events
  • Contact
  • Fiction
  • Biography & History
  • All Books

It Happened Like This & Other Stuff

It Happened Like This & Other Stuff

Welcome to my blog. Here are some true tales about growing up Southern and some stories about how everyday things are sometimes more meaningful than they seem.

Lies, Tall Tales, Watermelons, and the Gateway to Hell

October 11, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

When I was a kid way back in the middle of the last century, someone—I don’t remember who, but likely one of my Southern Baptist Sunday School teachers—said if you told lies, you’d go to [...]

Filed Under: You Have to See the Humor in It

Sunshine Does, Too, Smell!

September 13, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

The proverbial “they” say sunshine doesn’t smell. But I say it does. That’s because I’ve smelled it, many times. I hope you have too. If not, I feel bad for you, because you’ve missed a [...]

Filed Under: Memories Are Where You Find Them

The Black and White of It: Southern Newspapers in the 50s

July 26, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

The first line of my novel Found in Pieces identifies Pearl Goodbar as the new owner and editor of a weekly newspaper, the Unionville Times, in 1958. That responsibility alone would have been challenge enough [...]

Filed Under: Looking on the Good Side

One of Those Days

June 25, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

If you’re under a certain age, you may not understand or appreciate this. But I assure you. Your time will come.

I should have known better after I opened my eyes this morning, saw that the [...]

Filed Under: You Have to See the Humor in It

When Songs Plus Memories Add Up to More

June 12, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

Isn’t it strange how sometimes a series of small seemingly unrelated and not especially meaningful occurrences suddenly get pulled together by some other minor happening so that they add up to something bigger? A new [...]

Filed Under: Memories Are Where You Find Them

Pen, Paper, and Nerve on the Go: More Remarkable Newspaperwomen

May 14, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

There is a scene in my novel Found in Pieces where Pearl Goodbar, the story’s main character, gets to hear two of her journalism role models speak at an event that actually occurred in real [...]

Filed Under: Looking on the Good Side

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 10
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Ticking Constitutional Time Bomb on Presidential Elections?
  • The Constitution and Long-Dead White Men
  • Newest Justice Gives Table-Turning History Lesson
  • Four-Leaf Clovers and Life-Changing Rocks
  • Apps, Veterinarians, and Chocolate Chip Cookies

Categories

  • Memories Are Where You Find Them
  • You Have to See the Humor in It
  • Looking on the Good Side

Copyright ©2022 · George Rollie Adams - All Rights Reserved

Scroll Up