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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, some stories about how everyday things are sometimes more meaningful than they seem, and some musings about stuff connected some way or other to my books.

Is This Nineteen Twenty-Two?

January 29, 2022 by George Rollie Adams

What year in America does the following describe, 2022 or 1922? Loved ones gone in a pandemic; racial violence plaguing towns and cities; veterans home from war but still suffering the effects of battle; careless [...]

Filed Under: Memories Are Where You Find Them

Christmas in a Small Town: Connected Experiences and Memories

December 11, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

If you were to ask your family and friends, or perfect strangers, what’s the best thing about the Christmas season, what would they say? Being with loved ones? Lights and decorations? Santa Claus? Christmas dinner? [...]

Filed Under: Memories Are Where You Find Them

Watermelons Again, but Don’t Tell St. Peter

November 22, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

Looking back can be fraught with peril. Among other things, it can make you tell stuff you ought to leave lying where it is. A few weeks back, after a visit with relatives I hadn’t [...]

Filed Under: You Have to See the Humor in It

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

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