https://mymothersattic3.com/shorts/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/prince_of_sleeping_beauty.jpgPrince_of_Sleeping_Beautyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2407.jpgIMG_2407https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f1a66810-4462-4a64-86ee-6c1f109c68ca.jpegf1a66810-4462-4a64-86ee-6c1f109c68cahttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/flat800x800070f-u1.jpgflat,800x800,070,f.u12026-03-12T14:51:23+00:00weekly0.6https://mymothersattic3.com/2025/09/29/afternoons-with-mary-sharecroppers-daughter/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image.pngimage2025-09-29T19:45:14+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2025/09/18/afternoons-with-mary-strong-roots-and-brittle-branches/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/screenshot-2025-09-15-at-2.24.47-pm.pngScreenshot 2025-09-15 at 2.24.47 PMhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/eliasandgeorgia.jpgEliasandGeorgia2025-09-18T19:42:56+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2025/09/07/afternoons-with-mary-chapter-one-on-my-mind-and-in-my-spirit/2025-09-19T11:48:18+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2016/07/10/i-am-mae-mobley/2025-09-07T19:51:18+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2025/01/29/the-places-we-become/2025-09-07T18:37:09+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2021/06/14/a-tale-of-two-cousins/2025-09-07T18:35:09+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2016/01/18/generation-sandwich/2025-07-06T18:40:17+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2025/06/02/shaking-off-the-dust/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_3913.jpegIMG_3913https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_1881.jpegIMG_18812025-06-02T18:35:22+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/awards-and-publications/2025-01-29T14:37:39+00:00weekly0.6https://mymothersattic3.com/about/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/img_1096-e1738095052665.jpgimg_1096https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/img_0565.jpgimg_0565https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/image.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_0279.jpgIMG_0279https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_2632.jpgIMG_26322025-01-28T20:14:58+00:00weekly0.6https://mymothersattic3.com/2023/04/29/home-at-last/2024-04-14T13:09:45+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2023/09/16/smoke-got-in-my-eyes/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/img_0674-2385189670-e1694985852686.jpgimg_0674https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lookingglass.jpglookingglass2025-06-16T13:44:49+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/06/20/family-guy/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image6.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image5.jpgimageCadet Mattingly, 4th row, left of center.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image4.jpgimageFather of five, 1956https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image3.jpgimageDad and his brood, June, 1993. Two grandchildren, my daughter and youngest son, were yet to come! https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_3444.jpgDads broodOne of the last times our brood was all together, sans my youngest. The '90s, complete with tacky Xmas sweaters.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pa143612516061.jpgDad at the FallsOne of my favorite shots of Dad, at one of his favorite spots near Nantahala, NC, or as he called it, "Nanta-bwalla."https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/n1356098147_30025795_41241.jpgHugBearhug for a son returned home.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/3-29-2010_0421.jpgDad with a buddyAs a young man, Dad had his nicknames, too--Matty, E.H., sometimes just plain "H," for his middle name, Hagan.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_3429.jpgPop on the beachDad, with paddle board, long before he became a dad. Circa 1935?https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_3371-e1434543613646.jpgParty HatMy dad as clown, with my mother and my niece, Laura Lee, circa 1980.2023-10-09T13:10:23+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2016/02/25/house-of-spirits/2023-05-01T12:57:52+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2021/01/07/lady-nona/2021-01-08T19:49:07+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2017/02/18/a-rose-for-miss-louise/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fullsizerender-18.jpgfullsizerender-18Mr. Strickland's obithttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fullsizerender-19.jpgfullsizerender-19https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fullsizerender-17.jpgfullsizerender-17A holiday greeting from the man I knew only as "Mr. Strickland."https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fullsizerender-16.jpgfullsizerender-16A few of the more colorful selections from my Aunt Louise's hat collection2020-04-01T12:27:12+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2020/03/22/she-who-taught-me-to-read/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/image-3-21-20-at-1.38-pm.jpgimage 3-21-20 at 1.38 pmhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/books.jpgBOOKSMy current bookshelfhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/screen-shot-2020-03-21-at-1.38.15-pm.pngScreen Shot 2020-03-21 at 1.38.15 PM2021-01-20T14:05:53+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2019/03/21/centennial/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/img_1945.jpegIMG_19452019-03-26T23:13:45+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2018/03/15/not-your-mothers-oldsmobile/2021-03-24T12:38:40+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2017/10/19/to-know-a-mother/2017-10-22T22:00:24+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/05/10/mamma-mia/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image5.jpgimageMom avec my brother Tom et moi, Fernandina Beach, circa 1964https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image4.jpgimageMy grandmother Bernice Agnew Lee, happily flanked by my mother and her father, circa 1976.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image3.jpgimageMy grandmother Frances Bickers Mattingly, pictured with my grandfather and their first son, Ben, circa 1912.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/img_0705.jpgIMG_0705Mother's Day morning, 9 AM delivery from my girl.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/img_0556.jpgIMG_0556Our happy sandwich, May 2010.2017-05-14T22:11:56+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2017/05/03/namaste-bro/2020-01-15T02:21:12+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2017/03/24/mother-may-i-a-wish-list-on-the-occasion-of-the-98th-birthday/2022-03-22T18:20:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2017/01/31/the-power-of-stuff-or-heres-to-you-elisabeth/2017-01-31T19:11:58+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2016/10/30/have-faith-will-travel/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/img_19071.jpgimg_1907My first trip to Paris, where I return often to find the little piece of my heart I left behind. https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/fullsizerender.jpgfullsizerenderA sampling of the Attic's travel library2016-10-31T23:33:47+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2016/10/09/time-and-time-again/2016-10-10T16:10:38+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2016/05/01/brother-brother/2021-01-14T16:18:09+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/a-mothers-all-star-memoir/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/unnamed-file.jpgCoach Cover2016-01-30T14:54:47+00:00weekly0.6https://mymothersattic3.com/2015/12/13/peace-on-earth/2015-12-13T22:58:32+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/11/08/you-can-go-home-again/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/image2.jpgNY letterhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/208175_1008052285679_1017_n.jpgFancy Joe and Pophttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/image1.jpgCardshttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/image.jpgCrestshttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image.jpgTrousseau dressHandwritten note: "Dress from my trousseau--November 1941. Rotten at top ... Very seldom worn since we had no money for evenings out." Always honest, my mother!https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2712.jpgiron sewinghttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/photo-4.jpgphoto 4"Will not Heat." Good to know, Mom!https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image9.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image1.jpglunch box2015-11-11T20:36:41+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/10/21/color-me-burnt-sienna/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img_05661.jpggolden treehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img_3845.jpgIMG_3845https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sc043b96a3.jpgHalloweenhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img_0599.jpgEmma pumpkinTraditional carving night!https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img_0333.jpgIMG_0333https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img_0996.jpgautumn lakeColor change in Lake Toxaway, North Carolinahttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cooler.jpgWildcats beat LovettAn October victory over the rival. My second son, #78, dumps the Gatorade in celebration. https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ianethan.jpgian:ethan2025-09-16T23:47:36+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/09/25/bookish/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image10.jpgSalem bookshttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image9.jpgattic readingAttic readinghttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image8.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image7.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image4.jpgmish mashhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image3.jpgold shelfhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image2.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image5.jpgBabes, Kittens and Prayershttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image3.jpgScarecrows and Tin Men and BearsScarecrows and Tin Men and Bears!https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image2.jpgThe Classics2015-09-26T12:55:49+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/08/30/boys-to-men/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image9.jpgSmithgall Woodshttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image8.jpgbrothershttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image7.jpgTom and mehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image1.jpgMen's A CapellaWestminster Men's A Capella, 2015-16, at Tate Mountain, Georgia.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image.jpgBrothers. George, Edward, John, and Tom, left to right.Fun at the Lake, the Mattingly Brothers, late 1950s2015-09-01T18:00:43+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/04/11/wooly-bully/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3284.jpgIMG_3284https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3283.jpgIMG_3283Slacks? She made them, but hardly wore them.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3282.jpgIMG_3282Making do with remnantshttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3281.jpgIMG_3281https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3280.jpgIMG_3280Wool dreamshttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3279.jpgIMG_3279https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3278.jpgIMG_3278https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3277.jpgIMG_3277The sweater that wasn'thttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3276.jpgIMG_3276Skeins from Mom's knitting phase, which apparently was short-lived. (See below for half-finished product). But you gotta love that wool! Receipt dated Feb. 2, 1957. https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3275.jpgIMG_32752015-04-12T17:33:27+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/03/29/odds-and-ends-revisited-en-papier/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2915.jpgIMG_2915I like Florida oranges … Sept. 28, 1926https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2913.jpgIMG_2913My papers and memorabilia from Live Oak cedar chest, wrote my mother. Here, the Adventures of Little Jack (o'lantern, presumably)https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2875.jpgIMG_2875Keeping track of timehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2842.jpgIMG_2842https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2841.jpgIMG_2841The note my mother wrote to inform my grandfather that she was pregnant yet again, for the fifth time in eight years.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2833.jpgIMG_2833Saved from the AJC's book sectionhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2832.jpgIMG_2832And another … https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2871.jpgIMG_2871Greetings from your Milkman, circa 19622015-03-30T18:39:40+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/03/19/airing-out/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_0155.jpgIMG_0155Birthday Girlhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2882.jpgIMG_2882My grandmother, pictured with my grandfather and my mother at about a year old. https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2856.jpgIMG_2856Guidebooks galorehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hm-g4b.gifhm-g4bhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image6.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image4.jpgimage2015-03-24T18:17:04+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/02/22/whistling-warden/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image20.jpgimageVodka and Harvey's Scotch, labelled so by my father, who did not drink.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/arp2.jpgARP2https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tumblr_n84mezkysa1qz5q5oo1_r1_500.jpgtumblr_n84mezKYSa1qz5q5oo1_r1_500Rosie the Riveter ain't got nothing on her.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image19.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image17.jpgimage"Ed's White Honeymoon PJ's," presumably never to be worn again2017-11-14T02:07:44+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/02/14/stardust-memories-part-ii/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2924.jpgIMG_2924From Mom, a week pre-wedding--"I begin to wonder if I am going to disappoint you. But then all at once I think about our love …"https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2910.jpgJoe and Pop on beachhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image10.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image9-e1423925858223.jpgimage2015-02-15T19:41:01+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/02/13/stardust-memories/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image14.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image13.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image12.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image11.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2912.jpgIMG_2912Mom and Dad in the early 1990s. Their children and grandchildren were gathered just behind the rocks.https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_28871.jpgIMG_2887https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image7.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image5.jpgimagehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image4.jpgimageOne of Mom's Dance Cards, April 8, 1938https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/image2.jpgLetter BoxMy Parents' Wartime Correspondence2015-02-13T20:17:19+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/02/07/odds-and-ends-mostly-odds/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_0625.jpgIMG_0625The lady preferred Hanes https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2872.jpgIMG_2872???https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2868.jpgIMG_2868Go Team!https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2760.jpgIMG_2760Swim caphttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_2630.jpgIMG_2630"Travel Cosmetics"2015-02-09T14:28:35+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/02/03/of-ghosts-and-goldfish/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_06211.jpgIMG_0621https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_27571.jpgIMG_2757https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/images.jpegimagesVivienne … See what I mean?https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/images-2.jpegimages-2Viviennehttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/photo-3-4.jpgphoto 3-4Momhttps://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/photo-2-4.jpgphoto 2-4Mom2015-02-04T14:56:09+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/01/30/all-buttoned-up/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_2756.jpgIMG_2756https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/joered.jpgJoeredJoe wearing one of her homespun dresses2015-02-04T01:14:53+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.com/2015/01/28/finding-the-woman-within-one-toothpick-at-a-time/https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_0137.jpgIMG_0137Generational pic, Mothers Day, 2012https://mymothersattic3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/photo-1.jpgphoto 12015-02-02T13:54:01+00:00monthlyhttps://mymothersattic3.comdaily1.02026-03-12T14:51:23+00:00