The Matriarch
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine May 2024| Cornelius, NC Before joining UNCC as a professor of educational leadership in 2005, I spent 30 years in three states in… Read more The Matriarch →
Practicing Just in Case
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine April 2024 | Cornelius, NC I worked on my bachelor’s degree at Auburn University from 1965-69 in the prototypical college town… Read more Practicing Just in Case →
Growing up in a Smalltown
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | FEB 24 | Cornelius, NC I grew up in the tiny town of Wilmer in West Mobile County, Alabama. Wilmer was… Read more Growing up in a Smalltown →
Golden Grape of the South
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | FEB 24 | Cornelius, NC. If you have read my Southern Exposures essays, you likely know I was born and raised… Read more Golden Grape of the South →
Almost Dead—A SHORT STORY
By Mickey Dunaway The stories I publish here are mostly true. The story below is totally fiction. That said, it is based on many facts. I have been out in small boats on the Mobile Tidal Basin; therefore, the names of places are accurate. I have come close to being struck by lightning “out of the blue” with no hint of a storm nearby, and holding a graphite rod if one knows lightning is close is just asking the Almighty to check his aim. But the story of the story… Read more Almost Dead—A SHORT STORY →
Don’t Ignore Life’s Limits
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | JAN 2024 | Cornelius, NC Every new January is a time we typically use to do a little self-reflection… Read more Don’t Ignore Life’s Limits →
Turning Point is Dangerously Near
By Mickey Dunaway Dear Family, Friends, Neighbors, Republicans, and Democrats, Liberals, and Conservatives, please read the following quote from former President Trump as quoted from The Morning Brew that I… Read more Turning Point is Dangerously Near →
My Car Says “Hello”
By Mickey Dunaway | Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | DEC 1, 2023 | Cornelius, NC. Have you bought a new car recently? I have. More about that shortly. I bought… Read more My Car Says “Hello” →
Southern Exposures 