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- Thursday, May 23, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Section - Ronda Rich's column
Dixie Divas: Bookcases hold my home’s treasures
In this house of wood and stones that I call home, there are books scattered and stacked hither and yon.
Dixie Divas: A beloved teacher reveals a shocking irony
When I breezed into the beauty shop amidst the chatter of voices and clatter of hair dryers and curling irons, I noticed the thick book dropped casually in a chair and it struck me as a bit strange.
Dixie Divas: The calf’s devotion
It was a sweet sight, no doubt. My heart is always drawn to God's animal creatures, especially those who have found themselves abandoned.
Dixie Divas: Boy, what rotten parents
One day I asked a friend how her son was doing in college. She smiled then began a discourse on how he was enjoying his field of study and what he could do with his degree when he graduated.
Dixie Divas: Miss Loretta
Several years ago, I befriended a woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, but then you know that, don't you? I've told you all about Miss Loretta.
Dixie Divas: Photo tells of a poor childhood
A picture - even one old that has faded from black and white to soft gray - can a tell a story, long and true. That one certainly did.
Dixie Divas: If nothin' don't happen
There is a friend of mine - one of the heroes I have known and loved - who is fascinating in the life lessons he shares and the accumulation of wisdom that seems to come so easily to him.
Dixie Divas: Karen the actor
It was all my idea. As immodest as that might sound, it's true. Now that my friend, Karen, has made it to the big time, she should be reminded that it all started with one of my hare-brained schemes.
Dixie Divas: Mama'a ring shines on
It would never have occurred to me that it would mean as much as it has, never cross my mind that I would cherish it as I have. I suppose that's what makes it even more meaningful.
Dixie Divas: The legacy of compassion
Daddy and Mama both spent a lot of time seeing after the needs of others. They comforted, called and cooked for those who were, in some way, suffering.
Crying and cussing — what’s the world coming to?
This is how bad times are getting – Claudette has taken to crying and Grace Ann has taken up cussing. It's like living in a science fiction film. It's like visiting a foreign country.
Dixie Divas: The Yankee Muse
When the column appeared where I lamented that my longstanding muse, Claudette, had lost a significant amount of humor due to medication and I needed a new muse who could inspire my writing, several stepped up to volunteer for the newly vacated position.
Dixie Divas: Southern pans are supposed to look awful
Whenever I take out my biscuit pan - and every Southern cook worth her salt and grease has one - I can't help but shake my head.
Dixie Divas: The useless opinions of others
One day at lunch, I ran into a beautiful older woman, a friend from years past, whom I hadn't seen in quite a while. She had changed very little since I first met her when I was in college.
Dixie Divas: Scotch-Irish forever set in their ways
A couple of years ago, when I deemed it absolutely necessary to cross the big pond and investigate my heritage that had been seeded in Northern Ireland, I had the good fortune of being introduced to a renowned historian who, through greater good fortune, has become a friend.
Articles by Section - Ronda Rich's column
Dixie Divas: Solving the mystery of Peggy Sue’s disappearance
When Peggy Sue went away, just fell off the face of the earth with no warning or even a holler, we all wondered where she had gone.
Dixie Divas: Taste of soap may cure profanity
Recently, I was in a bookstore with a friend. We stopped at a table near the front of the store and it was loaded with different books that had such obscene titles that many of the words were expressed as "@?*#."
Dixie Divas: When my Mama made up her mind
Mama was stubborn. "Set in her ways," is what country folks call it and boy, was she. When she made up her mind, nothing stopped her. Especially when she set her jaw and punctuated her declaration with a firm nod of her head. If she also threw that crooked forefinger in your direction, you knew it was set in stone. Destined to be.
Dixie Divas: Sweet sound of old-fashioned harmony
One day over lunch, my new-to-the-South-but-thoroughly-loving-it husband commented on the choir singing at our church, which is led by my brother-in-law, Rodney.
Dixie Divas: Missing beloved Mr. Bobo
To be downright honest, I never expected to miss him this much. And, if the deeper truth be told, perhaps it isn't just the loss of a singular man, though great and admirable he was.
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