https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SouthernPeach/Peach on alienation and mothering in the South.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SouthernPeach/518990The world they need Lately my boys have been disturbed at bedtime. They are five and a half and big enough that they are used to the regular routine of bath, pajamas, teeth and story but recently after I walk out of the room, turning out the lights, all hell breaks loose. There are tears and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SouthernPeach/518295Guns and the slingers that want them I hate guns. I know about guns. I grew up in Australia where having a gun meant you owned land. Usually a great deal of land which could, at any time, usually after a period of severe drought which happens every three or so years, be overrun with rabbits,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SouthernPeach/517291Song of the Weeping Camel I grew up in Australia with a father, a writer that reads Latin and understands Ulysses and who was highly critical of my English papers, and a mother who painted huge oil canvases and did the laundry with paint on her hands so that blotches of Burnt Umber or Sienna...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SouthernPeach/516884Slim Pickings I feed my family trash. Not junk food or even artificial crap but literally food that came out of a trash bin. It’s a dumpster actually. A dumpster that belongs to the only organic, whole food store in Little Rock, where, because of lack of competition, the prices are outrageously...