Tammy Castleman
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I have been an avid writer and photographer for most of my life. In terms of true passions, those are mine. What I lack for in memory, I make up for in recorded detail. We are what we leave behind.
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Dorcheat Bayou Cornbread & Memories.... Honorable Mention in A Taste of Home Challenge.
Home. Family. Genetic memory. Call it what you will, certain recipes bring it all back, all the way through the generations and back to grandpa Van’s homestead and ripened fields of sorghum. All the way back to Van’s little girl, Sylvia, in her patchwork dress, chasing butterflies through the cornfields.
By Tammy Castleman11 months ago in Feast
Weird Tammy
I always stuck out like a proverbial sore thumb, as much as I just wanted to blend, to be like everyone else; to be invisible. But I was the one who spoke when it was best to remain silent, and who invented my own birthday parties which classmates showed up to, only to find no party. And it never helped that I was the chubby kid in the small town with the flipped up natural curls. What is it about body fat that brings out “Lord of the Flies” mentality in kids?
By Tammy Castleman2 years ago in Humans
The Ambassadors
Two friends on mission to end division between Henry VIII and the Church of Rome. Holbein sends the message that no amount of wealth, power or education can prevent death; and no man, including the pope, had any power to stop the inevitable; Henry's decision to create his own church.
By Tammy Castleman2 years ago in Critique
