health + HAPPINESS
Holidays
with a Southern Exposure
Hunting, feasting and good old-fashioned gift giving BY » Mickey Dunaway
M
iy wife and I took a different route to the Charlotte area than most inhabitants of the queendom. We didn’t flow in a torrent downward; we trickled up, a state at a time, from our family homes in south Alabama. My wife and I were
born, bred, raised, and remain influenced by south Alabama more than any other single place in our lives. To us, the Holiday Season begins with Thanksgiving—my personal favorite—and carries over to college bowl season, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
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Bring on the decorating
These days in our 55+ community of Bailey’s Glen, the holiday season means decorating. People will decorate anything that sits still. Mailboxes, sidewalks, the grass on the opposite side of alleys,
porches, cars, front doors, and dogs. Thankfully ( from my perspective at least), at our house, we tend to bring out family trinkets and heirlooms— although they tend to fall more in the novelty that the heirloom category— after Thanksgiving— unless Thanksgiving
