Tagged with Georgia

My granddad, Horace Adams, turns 89 today.  I called this morning to wish him a Happy Birthday, and when he answered, he told me he was reading. That he was reading was good news.  Last summer, he had cataract surgery on his good eye.  A scratched cornea during his recovery caused concern that he wouldn’t [...]

Yep, I’ve still got it. Late last night, I was driving home from an exhibition tennis match with my son and two friends.  We were on a stretch of road with a speed limit of 60, and I was laughing and talking and being careful not to speed when my friend in the front seat [...]

Four months after my father’s mother died, my Granddad called to ask my sister and me if we would come help clean out his attic. My grandmother, Glennis Smith Adams, grew up in northwest Georgia during the Great Depression.   Breakfast, she often told me, was sometimes only a biscuit dunked in a cup of coffee [...]