UNBECOMING

“Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.” ― Eudora Welty “We didn’t get spanked! It was the 70s. My parents went to workshops on how to parent.” This friend and colleague was born and raised in upstate New York. She was talking to me and a fellow coworker, who was born and raised in the South. We exchanged a sly southern smile. “We got whoopins...in the 70s...in the South.” He almost s