I am the product of a mixed-marriage. My mother is a southern belle and my father is a damn Yankee. Dad drinks Michelob out of a bottle, and my mother sips sweet tea from a mason jar. She says, “God bless you,” and he says, “Gawd dammit!”
Unfortunately for them, their romance didn’t take the leisurely path of antebellum courting. Instead, it took the northern carpetbagger route. The dissolution of their union was like Lee surrendering to Grant at Appomattox, and it was just as brutal.
Spoils of war did yield me though, so the marriage wasn’t all bad.
Thin spiral notebook 
sweet tea is always a little “too sweet” for me, which is why I want to stay close to NYC and just dream about the South (or read Siddons and Conroy for my fixes).
However, my mom is coming South…sooner than later…I might have to acquire a taste for the tea 😉
love that picture and the way you used “mixed marriage” : such great words.
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This flows so smoothly it’s almost poetic. I love the contracts in imagery—the sweet tea in a mason jar vs the bottle of beer, the God bless you vs the goddammit. Simply fantastic.
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love it
I made a sarcastic remark about the reason I stay in the south is the sweet tea. When it’s in that kind of jar, it’s like drinking crack.
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Oooh Tara, now I want some sweet tea in a mason jar. Too damn cold for that up here. Love this little vignette and the way it races you through the life cycle of a marriage.
Glad you’re here too. 🙂
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A tasty trickle of a story that could unfold nicely in longer verses, on some other day, in some other way. I’m glad you’re here.
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Off topic, I love the new design of your page.
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Thanks k~, I can’t seem to leave well enough alone though. There’s no telling how long I’ll keep this look.
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That is part of the creative freedom you own. With all of the wonderful images you take, it would be hard to keep the same thing up all the time. But, I do like it! 🙂
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Me too. Your new looks are always so eye-pleasing but I especially like this one.
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I adore the image of a Northerner and Southerner as a mixed marriage, as well as the carpetbagger implications!
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