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  Homer, Hector, and the Smashed-up Jag

  by Betty Dravis

  For many years I wanted to write some kind of humorous/satirical story about my brother Homer's name and the childhood teasing he endured because of it. Considering that my mother had named two of my sisters Gladys and Beulah, I always felt lucky she chose Betty for me (but now that Ugly Betty is a TV pilot, I'm not so sure about that anymore). Siblings Dottie, John, Jr. and Philmore fared rather well in the name... (more)
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  The Search for Bobby McGee

  by Betty Dravis

  In the 1970s my daughters often danced around the house to the strains of "Me and Bobby McGee,“ the famous song by the late Janis Joplin. Even though, in the '50s, I had been "star-struck" by Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, and others, it still amuses me that people nowadays are almost morbidly obsessed with celebrities. Recently, I overheard some "Baby Boomers" discussing Bobby McGee, wondering if he were a real... (more)
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  Coal & Coca-cola

  by Linda Gail Shelnutt

  I have always admired my mother's bull dog determination as a divorced, single woman supporting herself and two kids through a business of her own as a professional baker. Against various types of odds for a woman in 1949, when my brother was around five-years-old, and I was two, our mother, Marge Hudnall, borrowed $6,000 from a local bank in her small town of Florence, Colorado (around 3,000 population at that... (more)