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! →
By Russell Haas INTRODUCTION BY MD It was 1969, and I was in my first year of teaching and coaching at Mary G. Montgomery High School. I never thought that… Read more Old Frank Haas →
By Mickey Dunaway December 25, 2022 Dear Kinfolks, In-laws, Outlaws, Auburn and Alabama Faithful, Long- and Short-term Friends, Former Teachers and Students wherever you are, and Especially Readers of my stories in Southern Exposures, Currents Magazine,… Read more Merry Christmas Day! →
By Bill Dunaway Introduction by Mickey Dunaway I have often written about the importance of memories, and when one just turned 76, writing those memories down for the younger generations becomes even more important. In the December 2022 Garden and Gun, the southern man of words, James Lee Burke, a frequent contributor, blessed all Southerners with another column filled with memorable metaphors and similes that no one uses quite as well as he does. At 85, James Lee Burke is still writing every day. His latest story is filled with memories from growing… Read more The Frosty Morning and the Bean Boots →
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | Cornelius, NC Writing my “Moments In Time” column for the December Currents Magazine was challenging. I had a bit of writer’s… Read more Look to the East →
By Mickey Dunaway The last four games of this forgetful Auburn football season and how one native Auburn son turned the gloom into glory even with a record of 5-6 is uniquely Auburn. This year’s Cadillac-turnaround actually began in November 1972, and here is the story. ~~~~~~~~ It was second-ranked Alabama and ninth-ranked Auburn playing the tenth and final regular season game at Alabama’s “home turf” of Birmingham’s Legion Field. Alabama was 9-0, and Auburn was 8-1, losing only to LSU in Baton Rouge. No TV for this game back in 1972. Seventy-two… Read more The Amazins of 2002 →
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | Cornelius, NC I have wanted to write this Moment in Time column for a while now. But the time was never good.… Read more Two Heroes →
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | Cornelius, NC Honestly, I am either bewildered by October or excited by it. I love the crisp breezes painting the Autumn leaves,… Read more The Day a Grown Man Cried →
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