georgia Archives - Robin Dance

Violet love: a camp memoir

by Robin | Feb 22, 2011 | Camp Days, Favorite things, Kids, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal

Sometimes I miss, even long for, the naïveté of youth. Then is the time for free and innocent expression… before you realize sometimes words have dual meaning. For me, summers at the all-girls Jennie Arnold Edwards Y Camp in the 70s...

Laundry & lines & suds & such

by Robin | Aug 3, 2010 | Family, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal, Photos, Southern, y'all, Travel, When art imitates life

I love my hometown; though it was never as small, it’s Mayberry to me. A few weeks ago I went back to celebrate my niece’s first birthday. Since my parents aren’t living, it’s not a trip I make often enough. Walking though Five Points, I...

Rotten tomatoes

by Robin | Jul 22, 2010 | Food and Drink, Photos, Southern, y'all

Sometimes I can be surprisingly literal and uncharacteristically brief — Somewhere in Georgia, July 2010. Homegrown tomatoes from someone very close to me. All I have to say is bless…her…heart. How does YOUR garden grow?...