Word: mothering
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...Back at the sewing machine, my grandmother guided the next fabric scrap under the silver foot just as she had with my mother 40 years before. Though it was 1993, and I was in Cincinnati, I was no exception to the Appalachian heritage of my family...
...made everything ourselves. It wasn’t just Granny—my mother did too. Snack day in elementary school warranted a night of baking. My classmates brought bagged popcorn or Saltines, but my mother started the night before. She baked bread, mixed flour, yeast, milk, and eggs in her large silver bowl. My snack day became so anticipated in Mrs. Reynolds’s class that kids would talk about it days in advance. My mother never knew, nor I suspect minded, that other kids brought store-bought popcorn...
...reason for a new table if there was one in the sitting room already; besides, what would you do with another table anyway, buy more trinkets to cover it? They did, however, realize the need for a post-office, and it was Granny’s mother, my great-grandmother, Zillie Power, who established it. At least she got the town named after her; you don’t get a town named after you for buying a new table...
...bits on hand. Because my grandmother had always made shirts, pants and dresses for her four daughters when they were children, her walk-in closet was a patchwork paradise. I sewed the fabric squares; Granny insisted that the right angles met in 90-degree perfection. (No wonder my mother became an architect.) The flashing needle tacked together vestiges of white dresses, red-checkered shorts, turquoise blue blouses and a dusty-rose colored skirt. Nothing matched, but that was the point...
...appeal - and challenge - lies in his personal narrative. That's why he began his recent talk in Rainbow City, before the audience of a couple of dozen people, with a familiar anecdote. On the day before Easter Sunday, 1977, he tells the audience, his single mother, a high school teacher, brought him to Alabama's state capitol for the first time. He was awed by the place. "I never could have imagined, growing up in West Montgomery, I'd ever have a chance to travel beyond that neighborhood, much less have a chance to serve as governor of this wonderful...