my mamaw

mamaw was born in either sugar holler or cornbread holler, whitley county, kentucky, in 1920.

here are all of my mamaw snippets in one place

mamaw's definition of feminism - "don't you ever tell me i can't do something."

"oh if they don't fall off the bed at least once, you ain't raisin' them right."

"we just like visiting the dead."

at mamaw's kitchen table -

me, "mamaw? are you wearing your hearing aid?"

mamaw, "yeah, i made the vegetable soup."

"wait, louise! my eye fell out!"

"if you have toenail fungus, put vick's vapor rub on it."

"if a baby has thrush, find the seventh son of a seventh son, and have him blow in the baby's mouth. fortunately, uncle pete happens to be the seventh son of a seventh son, so we don't have to look very hard."

"my father was a miner, my brother was a miner, my mother had two brothers that were killed, mining."

"where'd her leg go?"

mamaw, "hanh?"

"HER LEG, WHA'D THEY DO WITH HER LEG?" my mamaw's hard of hearing.

"oh, they buried it with somebody."

have someone blow cigarette smoke into your ear if you have an earache.

"rub some jewelweed on that poison ivy."

"instead of changing her clothes, she would just put a clean dress over her dirty one...jim matt said that when she died, she had on fourteen dresses."