Category: Family

The old woman we called Granny was my great grandmother, and Aunt Edith was her oldest child. Edith was born in Minnesota in 1894, probably near Lower Red Lake or Leech Lake. Granny's husband, Dr. George Davidson, was a physician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and...

The old woman we called Granny was my mother’s mother’s mother, my mom’s grandmother and my great grandmother. Granny was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1872. She was 91 years old when I entered the first grade and died just five months shy of 100. She had white...

There are two types of men in this world: those who wear a shirt pretty much all the time, and those who hardly ever wear a shirt. Tyrone lived within the latter category. Tyrone was from Mississippi and he was the Genuine Article. He had a flattop, close on the...

And this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America... The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. -- Lyndon Johnson, 1964 This is the richest country on Earth and we have 40 million in...

Hi kids! Welcome back to another exciting episode of Sh*t Your Dad Watched. Tonight we examine the life of Gidget Lawrence, whose television career spanned nine years and three series. So grab a spot on the couch, pull the tinfoil cover off your Swanson's TV dinner,...

‘Tis the season to make lists and check them twice. And, at some point in his or her life, every pop culture blogger is required to make a list of television shows. Best shows, worst shows, best shows cancelled after one season ... you get the picture. And these days...

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. -Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Three hundred million years ago Rudman County lay beneath a calcium carbonate-rich sea. The waters were shallow, less than six feet deep in many places, and they moved across the shelf with...