Carolyn Cary's blog

Waffle House Gang loses a friend

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:18 -0400

I am proud to tell everyone that I belong to two “gangs,” the Waffle House gang, and the Gold Wing motorcycle gang.

My first writing project

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:32 -0400

I read in a recent news item that Pennsylvania is celebrating 150 years of extracting crude oil from the Allegheny foothills.

When your oldest child turns 50 . . .

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:45 -0400

I have been telling friends and anyone sitting still that when your oldest child becomes old enough to join AARP, then you are really old.

I’m proud to have known PTC’s founding father

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:49:23 -0400

Regarding the article by Steve Brown, The Citizen, May 13, I must take issue with his premise.

Brown, a parvenu if there ever was one, has evidently decided that living in a community means being divisive and questioning well-established historical facts. As a native of the area, one would think Brown would not want to do this.

I remember being quarantined, separated from family — at age 6

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:58:32 -0400

All the discussion lately about swine flu and quarantine reminded me of a time in my past, one that took place before the war, as they say. I was living in the Kenmore community of Akron, Ohio.

Robert Burch is a worthy Hall of Famer

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:14 -0500

As part of the University of Georgia’s Year 2000 millennial celebration, the University Libraries established the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. It was established as a public awards program and a permanent online exhibit honoring Georgia’s most influential writers.

Sheriff Randall Johnson retires with flourish

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:53:54 -0500

Sheriff Randall Johnson retires from his 32-year service as Fayette County Sheriff with a flourish.

The dictionary uses the word “flourish” figuratively as to be in the best time of life or activity.

Local charity — Fayette Samaritans — needs your help now

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:34:40 -0400

A charity that helps feed down and out Fayette Countians is itself down and out — of food and charitable family items — and needs your help.

M.T. and Glen Allen: Good members of their community

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:56:51 -0400

My good friends, Mary Jean "M.T." and Glen Allen met the year I moved to Georgia, 1959. They were employed at the Atlanta airport, Glen as an air traffic controller and M.T. as a teletype operator for Delta Air Lines.

Quarantine talk revives memories

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:56:47 -0400

All the discussion lately about tuberculosis and quarantine reminded me of a time in my past, one that took place before the war, as they say.