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Deep Dive: LBJH

There is no Long Beach Junior High anymore. A couple years after I graduated, they moved the freshmen to the high school, and the sixth...

Theresa S. Wants to know: What was your initial impression of Long Beach? I was not quite 11 when my family moved from the suburbs of...

I'm going to pause now to ask you: What more do you want to know? Now that I've given you an overview of my story, Ask Me Anything. What...

I got a lot of comments and messages on that last post specifically about the longevity of mine and Chip's marriage, given its unorthodox...

I went out with Chip on New Years Eve, 1992. As we danced at midnight, I realized, "I love this guy." The next morning I tested positive...

My new roommate Susan had just graduated from Memphis State but was still working at Chili's with us. She was an only child, and when she...

Some time around 1988 I finally broke up with Casey for good and moved into a house with my brother, who had now graduated high school...

Not long after Scotty and I broke up, I met Casey, a boy from Iowa who was living in Mississippi. He worked construction, only listened...

My "gap year" between high school and when I started community college, Shelley and I became obsessed with what we referred to as "Rude...

I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.