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Tag Archives: Matthew McConaughey
Remembering Darcas Montgomery’s Exuberant Son
[On December 2, 2016, my dear father Roy Rotha Allen passed away at the age of 81. His health and memory had declined for years–but his health failed more precipitously over the past 14 months. Although Daddy had been hospitalized lately, … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Childhood, Courage, Family, Home, Knoxville, Love, Music, Screen, Travel
Tagged A Summer Place, Anderson News, Audie Murphy, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Darcas Montgomery, Dr. Zhivago, eulogy, Floyd Cramer, House Hasson Hardware, Jeff Chandler, Kern's Bakery, Kitty Kallen, Knoxville, Lay Packing Company, Little Things Mean Alot, Matthew McConaughey, Mormons, New York Yankees, Pat Summitt, pellagra psychosis, Psalm 100, Quakers, Skeeter Davis, South Knoxville High School, Stanley's Greenhouse, Tennessee, The UT Lady Vol basketball program, The UT Lady Volunteers, White Lily Flour
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Up to Good
When I was growing up, Mama used to say so-and-so was up to no good. Illustrating that description from my childhood was an infamous family whose last name has been lost in the haze of my faulty memory. They were … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Freedom, Intuition, Screen
Tagged individualism, Matthew McConaughey, Mud, Reese Witherspoon, The Grapes of Wrath, Tye Sheridan
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