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A TRIBUTE
A TRIBUTE It is with great sadness that we at Porchscene say goodbye to our wonderful friend and active contributor, Mona Sides-Smith. After a lengthy and painful illness, Mona withdrew from her struggle on January 1, 2016. In her continuing series, ABOUT MONA, she gave us a glimpse at her fascinating life and her world, which she presented with self-deprecation, caustic wit, and honesty. And…
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IT’S ABOUT THANKSGIVING By Mona Sides-Smith
IT’S ABOUT THANKSGIVING By Mona Sides-Smith
IT’S ABOUT THANKSGIVING By Mona Sides-Smith Over the gravel and through the weeds, to Grandmother’s house we went. It was Thanksgiving. It could have been any holiday. Or any Sunday. Or any day, for that matter. It was where we went when I was twelve years old — give-or-take a few years. When I was ten years old, we moved from the farm to a coal mining settlement in Southern Illinois, to be…
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IT’S ABOUT EARLY ELVIS, PART I - By Mona Sides-Smith
IT’S ABOUT EARLY ELVIS, PART I – By Mona Sides-Smith
Banner at Graceland…Memphis, TN 2015 Here is the first of a probable series of short pieces offering you snippets of information and confidently presented checklists for those readers who have current collections of Elvis tunes and want to update the ‘50s section. Elvis Presley, dead or alive, still has us dancing in the streets. In the 1950s, Elvis was very much alive and, some say he…
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IT’S ABOUT STORE-BOUGHT BODY PARTS By Mona Sides-Smith
IT’S ABOUT STORE-BOUGHT BODY PARTS By Mona Sides-Smith
Mind you, I’m not ungrateful for store-bought body parts; it’s just that they are such a drag on my mind. It’s been going on for years and I’m about to put an end to it.
My boobs are hanging down again. It takes the magic of Victoria’s Secret for me to look like I have more shape than any eighty-year-old man would have. A flat chest and a little pot belly is a lot less attractive on a woman than…
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IT’S ABOUT NOT CARING MUCH By Mona Sides-Smith
IT’S ABOUT NOT CARING MUCH By Mona Sides-Smith
Relatives? I don’t much get involved with what most of my relatives do, and vice-versa. I seldom see most of my family of origin and, when we do get together, we say how nice it is to see each other, whether we mean it or not. Hey, we haven’t seen each other in years, and most of us haven’t thought about each other twice since the last funeral we attended en masse.
My immediate family is an…
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It’s About Marriage by Mona Sides-Smith
It’s About Marriage by Mona Sides-Smith
I don’t know why I keep getting married. I got married in my twenties. I got married when I was pushing seventy. And I got married several times in between. You’d think a person would learn not to keep doing that. I don’t particularly like to live with people – too self-centered. Me, I mean, not necessarily any of them. Well, not some of them anyway.
There were five weddings. In my behalf, I…
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IT’S ABOUT THE YARD by Mona Sides-Smith
IT’S ABOUT THE YARD by Mona Sides-Smith
June 1, 2014
My yard is a paradise for possums, birds, coons and squirrels. And me.
I have a mulch pile in my front yard. The mulch pile is snuggled under the most beautiful magnolia tree anywhere within a few miles of my house. Its branches cover most of the front yard, making it easy to pick a big, white, lemony flower and foist it on any neighbor who has been neighborly enough to wave at the…
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IT’S ALL ABOUT PIANO LESSONS by MONA SIDES-SMITH
IT’S ALL ABOUT PIANO LESSONS by MONA SIDES-SMITH
MAY 6, 2014 I am a dropout from the senior citizens piano lessons class. I didn’t exactly drop out. I was dropped out. Not for my inability to learn how to play the piano, but for my ability to play piano, rather poorly I might say, in a style not compatible with what the class was going to be taught.
Being set adrift, I set out to follow leads on how and where I could find someone willing to…
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