Carmen Milligan
Green Bean Casserole: Polarizing Thanksgiving Side
My mom and I were discussing the Thanksgiving Day menu recently, and I threw out the perennial favorite: green bean casserole. Based on...
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Carmen Milligan
Nov 3, 20201 min read
When you give a mom an orange ...
What do you do when you can't eat a whole bag of clementines before they start to go bad? You call your mom, of course! My mother is...
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Carmen Milligan
Oct 9, 20201 min read
You should say your piece and hold your peace.
Have you ever wondered about the difference in the two sayings, "hold your peace" and "say your piece"? They seem to reference the same...
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Carmen Milligan
Oct 3, 20203 min read
Sundown Towns
When I moved to Arab, my boys were 6, 5, and 5 years old. I had moved them from everything they had ever known back to an extended family...
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Carmen Milligan
Oct 2, 20202 min read
Fountain Pens
I love writing with a fountain pen. It makes me feel fancy, old fashioned, bougie, and outside the norm, all at once. Pens have come a...
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Carmen Milligan
Sep 26, 20202 min read
Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsberg
A year or so ago, I saw a post on Fun 92.7’s Twitter page about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It was not nice, called her a rude name, and said...
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Carmen Milligan
Sep 15, 20201 min read
Apostrophe abuse
I can barely stand it. Which means that, sometimes, I can't stand it. I had to correct a coworker today when she wrote that "we need more...
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Carmen Milligan
Sep 13, 20202 min read
I'm a journaler ... well, I was ...
I am a journaler. Well, if truth be told, I used to be a journaler. You see, there was a group on facebook that I joined, a group of...
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Carmen Milligan
Sep 7, 20202 min read
Memories of San Francisco
In a previous post, I mentioned my much-loved trip to San Fran. My life-long friend Jennie was going for a conference, and she invited me...
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Carmen Milligan
Sep 6, 20201 min read
...and speaking of the Beat Generation...
On this day in 1951, William S. Burroughs, author of the very controversial and often-challenged The Naked Lunch, shot and killed his...
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Carmen Milligan
Sep 4, 20202 min read
And THIS is why it's important to have diversity
As a white woman of immense privilege, I have never had to search to see reflections of myself. I am on television. I am on book covers....
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 31, 20201 min read
...and just like that, summer ends.
Remember when your grandmom used to tell you that time seemed to move faster the older she got? She was so right. I wonder why. Could it...
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Carmen Milligan
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Why I read.
I have read as long as I can remember. I loved The Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, and devoured Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys books....
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