Comments on: Southern Dandy

By: Margaret Smythe

Margaret Smythe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:47:43 +0000

This is the second of Abbey’s works, I love her writing style, so intersting and fresh. A new voice that carries grace with the weight of wisdom and compassion. Keep it up Abbey, the world is brighter with the music of your words.

By: Tyler Loughran

Tyler Loughran — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:27:57 +0000

Simply astonishing. You never cease to amaze me with your writings. One can only hope to express your opinions and thoughts on this game we call life like the incredible Irish Word Painter. Keep at it, I find you have such a strong talent to offer the literary world.

By: Laurel LaVelle

Laurel LaVelle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:09:57 +0000

Abbey is much too bright to be a bartender, what a waste, but she certainly walked away armed with keen insight and compassion few are endowed with. I have had friends who were bartenders for a spell and 90% of these people left with cynicism and anger. We would do well to emulate Abbey and learn humanity over hostility. I love the way she describes ordinary things and dresses it up in taffeta. “There’s not a neighborhood in America who has not danced with this Southern Dandy”, imaginative, creative, a true wordsmith who does not so much tell her story but brings it to life with paints on canvas, not so much a story but a life affirming mural. What talent and how truly refreshing.

By: Leslie Metcalf

Leslie Metcalf — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:25:52 +0000

Wonderful! Unique! Refreshing eyes! A Literary Marvel! Keep them coming, Abbey.

By: Poppy Lynn Chambers

Poppy Lynn Chambers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:17:39 +0000

Being born into a family of addictions and dependencies, I learned very young about the struggle basic life coping skills can become to a soul who is for the most part, a normal Joe, your next door neighbor, your teacher, your mother…..Abbey, I want to thank you. My world has become a caloused, rushed, and cynical world, a world that I would have never believed 10 years ago would be mine, and you have touched an old heart string that I forgot belonged to me. I look forward to more writings…..

By: A. Lucky-Wan

A. Lucky-Wan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:54:07 +0000

Although I do enjoy the occassional fine wine, micro-brewery beer, or even a martini, I have been known to overindulge at times of personal despair. But for the grace of God, there go I!

I pass homeless people every day on my drive to work, since my highway interchange has been closed for construction and I've had to take some inner-city roads as a detour. I wonder how many of them have had a love affair with the Southern Dandy.

Well put, Abbey.

By: Raven Black

Raven Black — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:34:49 +0000

It’s confirmed, I am in love. Waiting for more of her.

Raven B.

By: A. Abbott

A. Abbott — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:15:11 +0000

The only thing I can say is I want to wear the glasses she wears when she looks at the world. Makes me feel a little shallow and empty headed. Such talent and self suredness. I want to devour everything she has written. She makes me want to become a more enlightened woman it embarrasses me to say.

By: Michaela Nichols

Michaela Nichols — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:53:26 +0000

I would love to live inside her head for just one day, the way she sees and feels things most of us pay no notice to. I have never given any thought to what may cause a person to become alcoholic, puts a different light on the subject and makes me feel almost as vacuous of the souls Abbey refers to. What a gifted mind and writer. Makes me want to sit up and pay more attention to life and the impact things have on us if we paid it any mind. Wonderful.

Michaela Nichols

By: Tara Kleinsasser

Tara Kleinsasser — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:04:56 +0000

There are no words to define what Abbey’s essay has done to alter my judgmental nature. I absolutely loved her. Can’t wait to hear more from her.

Tara Kleinsasser