By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine |May 2023 | Cornelius, NC We have a bluebird house in our backyard, and we relish the hours we spend drinking coffee and… Read more Standing on the Shoulders of Others →
Introduction by Mickey Dunaway, Publisher If you have read my as-the-spirit-moves-me-columns, then you have already met my former high school student from the early 1970s at Mary G. Montgomery High… Read more The Peg-Legged Man in the Hollowed-Out Tree in the Middle of the River →
By Leigh Ann Worley Introduction and Epilogue by Mickey Dunaway Before you read Leigh Ann’s story, I want to introduce to you, if you do not know her, my former… Read more Doctor’s Blunder — My Living Nightmare →
By Mickey O’Dunaway I was sure I was Irish. Absolutely sure. That is until I was 75, and a relative told me there was no way we had ancestors in the… Read more ON BEING IRISH →
I Knew I Would Use Metaphors One Day By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | March 2023 | Cornelius, NC Is there a metaphor appropriate to the aches and… Read more A Man and His Boat →
By Mickey Dunaway Whether you are emotionally up or down, happy or sad, melancholy or ecstatic. This picture of Chloe and Boomer, our two Brittanys on a sunny Winter’s day,… Read more Mother and Son →
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | Cornelius, NC February is best known for Valentine’s Day, but let’s face it, Valentine’s Day is mainly for ad agencies whose goal… Read more I Wish You Love →
By Mickey Dunaway Maybe it was the Grammys the other night, which I did not watch. However, I was delighted that Song of the Year, “Just Like That,” went to 73-year-old Bonnie Raitt—a member of MY generation! Maybe it is the political smallness that never ends. Perhaps it is that I cannot watch a news broadcast without finding captions misspelled. Maybe it is that February 2023 in the Carolinas has looked a lot like February during my three years in Indiana. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my bit of cultural causticness… Read more A BAKER’S DOZEN WORDS, PHRASES, AND OTHER STUFF THAT GRATES ON ME! →
Southern Exposures 