This is a true story written in March of 2003 about my great-great grandfather, David Crockett Lockhart (1842-1929), who was quite some man. I heard this story at our family reunion back in 2003 and wanted to expand on it. His wife was Amanda Tennessee (my mamaw, Tennessee Jo’s grandmother) […]
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Written April 19, 2000 “Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly.‖Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon My whole life I wanted to fly and like most children, I just expected that I naturally could. After jumping off my father’s brown, corduroy reclining […]
February 2003, 2nd semester, senior year of college “Every piece of writing contains this tacit message: ‘I wrote this because it’s important; I want you to read it; I’ll stand by it. Ԡ–Matthew Grieder Two summers ago, while sitting at my boring, nine-to-five office job, flipping through a Reader’s […]