My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. We just celebrated Father’s Day, and I loved seeing all the photos of everybody’s dad popping up in my Facebook feed. It reminded me that I promised y’all way […]
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
I have a full series of biographical posts here, if you wish to attempt some armchair psychoanalysis on RameyLady. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have only a few rules that I strive to follow at work (in addition to the basics of human kindness): 1. Don’t be too loud. The struggle is […]
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Memorial Day was never complicated when I was a kid. We lived on top of a mountain in Appalachia in the middle of the woods. Flagpoles weren’t part […]
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My parents relocated our family to the top of an Appalachian mountain by the time I was 3. One wall of our living room, 7 feet tall by […]
Estimated reading time: 15 minutes
I’ll pick up more of my dad’s story in future posts, including how he met my mom and my childhood. Somewhere I’ve got a photo of my dad in his “work clothes” (actually, he wore this all the time) – a pair of brown Dickies work pants and a solid […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes