"When we are young, what happens is not nearly as important as what we think happens. Perhaps that is true even when we are not so young." - from Robert Ebert's 1995 review of the film "Hope and Glory"
A Sampling of Linda Rae
Peanut visiting his girls in Louisiana, summer of 1956
FAMILY PHOTO
A Sampling of Linda Rae's CD, "Ouachita Girl-Volume 1" which can be ordered directly at the email address at the bottom of this page.
I don’t like painted nails or True Romance but I do love fishing. I’m only ten and a half but I can bait my own hook with the biggest worm in Bill’s bucket. You gotta skewer the worm two or three times to hide the hook real good, which Bill says will usually fool a dumb fish. Since I am the oldest and therefore the bravest of my sisters, I always bait Cathy Lee’s and Jannie Mae’s hooks, as they cannot stand to pick up or even touch a live worm.
-- from "Go Fish"
We stopped in the building that had the farm animals but it stunk bad in there. When Jannie Mae tried to bend over to pet the baby goats, it made her dizzy and Mama real worried. Then we pushed her into the Home Building where we spent too much time looking at fudge, pies and cakes, none of which we could eat. It got hot in there and we was so hungry, we begged Mama to please let us go back outside on the midway.
-- from "The Wheelchair"
Billie will stop by later around four and ask if I wanna go bike riding and I'll tell her we ain't finished cleaning yet, to come on back after supper. Later, while wiping down the window sills in the living room, I catch a glimpse of her daddy at their brick barbecue pit that he built himself, turning hot dogs and smoking a Lucky and I am wondering why life seems so unfair, especially on Saturdays.
-- from "Bowling Alley Wax"
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