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My family owned a tailor shop in LaGrange, GA. My paternal grandfather, “Daddy Mike” Frosolono opened the shop in the 1920s. My father, Cecil Frosolono, and my paternal grandmother, “Mama Ruth” Frosolono, worked in the shop until after Daddy Mike retired and Cecil died in 1963. Subsequent to Cecil’s death, the family closed the shop.Read more

I participate in the Köehler Author Forum on Facebook, which is limited to participants who are authors with Köehler Books. A recent topic on this forum focuses on why the participants became authors and what defines a person who claims to be a writer. My writing life began in the early evening of a weekdayRead more

I experienced an epiphany concerning time when I was a sophomore at LaGrange High School. This sudden new insight occurred shortly after my first day in Mrs. Raymond Smith’s sophomore English class. Mrs. Smith and my grandmother, Mama Ruth, sang in the choir at the First Presbyterian Church. I sometimes noticed Mrs. Smith looking intentlyRead more

Miss Louise Owen taught senior Government classes at LaGrange High School. By the time I came to her stimulating classroom in 1956, I had already become politically aware. Conservative economic and liberal sociological positions attracted me even then. Liberal, Conservative, Centrist During one class discussion, I came up with a not-too original observation: The DemocraticRead more