November always brings a mix of celebration and reflection for Cowgirl Candace. It’s my birthday month. Another year of life and lessons, but these past few years have felt different. As soon as I crossed into my 40s, I started losing some of the strongest women who shaped my roots: both my grandmothers, June Morrow […]

Her then-strawberry blonde bob saluted T-Boz from girl group TLC. When that black-on-black Ford Explorer pulled up in the grandparents’ dirt driveway, her neon windbreaker and doorknocker earrings sufficed as a rather loud hey y’all. Auntie Kathy arrived at Edward Hill Farm in Baldwin County, Georgia, in the 1990s to organize backyard parties. Those family […]