This is my first post.  I started this blog 16 days ago and everyday since then I get a notice that tells me that it has been 16 days since anything has happened. The notice taunts me everyday when I log onto Facebook while I am seated in my recliner with my diet Coke watching another marathon of the same HGTV Fixer Upper shows that I have seen at least 23 times each. (Dear HGTV, please ramp up the production of this show so I can have some new episodes to watch. Or better yet, please consider giving me my own show.) Maid of Cotton is going to be a place where I write my thoughts about anything I want. It is going to be about growing up in the South, specifically Memphis. It is going to be the place I write about being a mother to four now grown children, being married to the man I have been married to 31 years whom I jokingly call my First Husband just to keep him on his toes. I may...