You really covered all the wonderful southern things that make us proud to be southerners! Thanks, Con!
Nov 27, 2009 Rating
Love from Cowpen Creek Road by: Anonymous
Thanks, Bonnie.......you are a love. I count you as one of my chilluns! Freddie Miller
Nov 26, 2009 Rating
Sweet Memories by: C. C. Huggins
WOW -Bonnie, your poem evoked sweet memories and made me homesick. We moved 24 years ago, but AL is still home.
Nov 26, 2009 Rating
Great blessing to be your friend! by: Natalie Neal Whitefield
Love this list of blessings. Made a sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving. It was delicious!
Nov 26, 2009 Rating
Great Southern Blessing by: C. Beck
Hey Bon,
Another great blessing is having a neighbor and friend named Bonnie Bartel Latino.
Nov 24, 2009 Rating
Bama rules by: Anonymous
Made me homesick, all the simple pleasures and tastes of the South. A cornucopia of the South.
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
Southern things by: Nancy H
Mimosas, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob or off with lots of butter, homemade peach ice cream, and lots more wonderful things about the South. You did a great job.
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
ALABAMA'S OWN, OFTEN NOT KNOWN! by: RICHARD DAVIS MCLEOD
You certainly covered a great deal, but as for other southerners, and primarily Alabamians that might also be on that list could possibly include Tallulah Bankhead (Alabama's most famous actress from a Political family that endured in Washington longer than any family in US History), Nat King Cole (born in Montgomery), Dinah Washington "Queen of the Blues" (born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Hank Williams (born in Montgomery), Helen Keller (was it Tuscumbia or one of those tri-cities), Yolanda Betbeze Fox (former Miss America from Mobile), Truman Capote (of Monroeville fame), Tammy Wynette (born in Birmingham), Fanny Flagg (born in Foley, Alabama), Johnny Mack Brown of Hollywood and the University of Alabama Football Team fame, and let's not forget Son Smith (aka: Paul Birch), and Tarzan White from our dear ole' Atmore!
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
Just peachy! by: N'Awlens
I loved it also!
You captured it all, Sister!!
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
Thank you!! by: Martha Patterson Lewis
Oh, Bonnie, what a sweet, sweet gift to all of us this Thanksgiving. You are a treasure, one who is able to capture part of our hearts and past and express them in a way that conjure up all kinds of emotions and joyMade me a little homesick, too.. even though Virginia is considered southern, it's a different southern blend. Love ya, girl, and so glad to reconnect! Happy Thanksgiving! Ma-tha
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
Thank y'all! by: Anonymous
Wow! GREAT comments to wake up to this gloomy morning...and thanks to those who've given me things to add for next year's versions--Texas and Louisiana let me know I left out a lot from their necks of the woods ;-) Tom and Kathy: LOL...love your additions. Thanks again to all. Bon
PS: Didn't y'all think Andy Andrews and Eudora Welty was an eclectic mix? And woe is me, I forgot RICK BRAGG! A major Southern sin.
Seriously, thanks to all for making time to read and comment. Bonnie
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
Blessings by: Andy Andrews
I'd like to add Bonnie to the list! Her work always makes me smile!!!
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
BLESSINGS!!!!! by: Cousin Brenda MillerAnonymous
BONNIE, WHAT A GREAT PIECE OF WRITING! WE ARE ALL SO LUCKY TO BE SOUTHERN FOLKS! I WOULDN'T TRADE LIVING ANYWHERE ELSE. CONGRATS ON ANOTHER WONDERFUL POEM!
Nov 23, 2009 Rating
Blessings by: Terry Bohannon
We do indeed have bushels and bushels
O'Southern Blessings. Makes me want to be
in "Sweet Home Alabama". You did good, Bon.
Nov 22, 2009 Rating
Thank thee.... by: Tray Smith
..also for bonnie! Our great southern culture warrior!
Nov 22, 2009 Rating
Wished we were Southerners, too! by: K and Gene
Makes us wish we were Southerners...good job, Bon Bon...
Nov 22, 2009 Rating
A little extra blessing by: the Hesters
Bon-Bon
and a Double Thank You, Lord, for Saturdays in the Grove...you done good...Hotty Toddy...Paul & Lynda
Nov 22, 2009 Rating
A Gumbo of Blessings by: Tom and Kathy Rodgers
Great poem, Miss Bon!!
Your poem reads like a slice of sweet potato pie,
A bowl of thick, steamy gumbo,
Or a bottle of R.C. Cola!
Throw in a bottle of Tabasco Sauce,
Some bignes from The Cafe Du Monde
Some raw oysters and a slice of Key Lime Pie
and a bottle of Dixie Beer, a good southern novel, and you've
got it made in the shade under a good ol' Texas Pecan Tree, Y'all!
:-) Happy Thanksgiving
PS: Don't burn down the house Cajun the turkey!
Nov 22, 2009 Rating
Makes me homesick! by: Aimee Allen
Makes me downright homesick for LA (Lower Alabama!) Love this, love this, love this!
Nov 22, 2009 Rating
A bushel of blessings by: Anonymous
Neat - very impressive to write just about everything that I can think of that is indicative of the South. Great use of syntax and rhyme. Definitely things to be thankful for. That and no hurricanes so far this year.
