Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | JAN 2025 | Cornelius, NC The picture belowis from my junior year and the Semmes High School Camellia yearbook. I chose it because, as much as anything… Read more My Best Days are Ahead →
Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | JAN 2025| Cornelius, NC By Mickey Dunaway Since this piece reflects forward on the upcoming twelve months of 2026, keep the idea of New Year resolutions in your mind as you read. I begin, as I usually do, with a personal story—this one about my upbringing. I was born and lived for 59 of my 79 years in the deep South. I have lived in the Tar Heel State for the last 20 years, which is definitely not in the deep-hot-as-an-oven South. The deep South is South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,… Read more Forgiveness and Trust: A Path Forward for America →
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | DEC 2025| Cornelius, NC Since Christmas last, I have thought of little in my spare moments, and if I am honest, in… Read more You Don’t Have to Go to Vermont →
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | Nov 5, 2024| Cornelius, NC. I recently saw a Charlotte Chef on a local TV Morning Show demonstrating—although not from the Low Country—how… Read more FISH and GRITS →
By Mickey Dunaway I overheard a friend recently who said, “Tonight is our weekly date night. We never miss one.” I smiled a little. My wife, Sandy, and I quit having… Read more Home Folks →
Southern Exposures 