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Welcome to “One Woman’s Opinion,” a long term feature of the Southside Sentinel, written by Urbanna resident Mary Wakefield Buxton. Traditionally a humorist, Mary has written a column on all subjects and sometimes in very serious vein. Along with writing a column  for the Sentinel since 1984, she is also author of 15 books about life and love in Tidewater, Virginia. Click here for available books.

Urbanna’s ‘big brass’ boundary brouhaha: Part 5

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 5 The prayers of writers are sometimes answered even though they don’t necessarily attend church services. And so the very next day a terrible storm hit Nimcock County tearing across the land, uprooting trees and taking off roofs of many houses. And most conveniently helping Merrypen find a way out of the “big brass” boundary...
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Urbanna’s ‘big brass’ boundary brouhaha: Part 4

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 Part 4 By now everyone in the charming town of Nimcock had taken sides. Who could not take a side? Everyone was talking...

Urbanna’s ‘big brass’ boundary brouhaha: Part 3

Part 1 • Part 2 Part 3 The lawyers had been selected, the distinguished Ronald E. Widget (who some in the county felt was totally unscrupulous) and the candy Enos F....

The ‘big brass’ boundary brouhaha continues

Part 1 Part 2 A  week or two passed by with not much more interchange between the Army and the Navy much to Nimcock’s relief. No one liked blow-ups between neighbors...

The ‘big brass’ boundary brouhaha

(Editor’s note: Before passing away this month, “One Woman’s Opinion” columnist Mary Wakefield Buxton completed a special five-part series, “The Nimcock Chronicles.” The following column is the first in...

One Woman's Opinion

Memories of past presidents: Part 3

Part 1 • Part 2 Richard M. Nixon won the presidency in 1968 as my husband and I were back in college working on degrees that had been put off while he served in the U.S. Navy. Chip was 25 years old when he started...

Sharing memories of past presidents: Part 2

Part 1 URBANNA — After Kennedy’s tragic assassination in 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took over the presidency. This startling change of leadership brought home the fact that voters must seriously consider the choices of the vice presidents when they cast a vote for...

Memories of past presidents surface as 2024 election nears

URBANNA — I recently read a poll that said the majority of Americans dread next year’s election for fear it will be a repeat of 2020. Facing a campaign rerun of the same two candidates running again in ’24 for another go at it...

“Growing old is as easy s a blink of your eye”

URBANNA — Well, I did it and it was easy. I turned 82 last week. Nothing to it. It was as easy as the blink of an eye! I had a lot of greetings from friends and family on my big day. Even my church,...

Home at last from the transatlantic trip of a lifetime

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 All good things come to an end. Thank goodness, the trip of a lifetime would end while we still had a few dollars left, could still limp along and...

Making landfall on the trip of a lifetime

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 Land ho! Yes! At the end of our week at sea we spotted the first sighting of land off the coast of Ireland, then England came into view. Soon we saw other...

Fog clears on the trip of a lifetime

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part Five After the third day the fog cleared. I stood on the bow of the Queen Mary facing eastward to England and took in the glorious blue Atlantic Ocean that surrounded us. Finally we could...

Captured in thick fog during transatlantic trip of a lifetime

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 Part Four Fog, as thick as cream, bore down on us as if determined to swallow our ship. I began to feel captured. It was strange standing on our balcony and hearing the sea, but not seeing it, like...

Experiencing sweet dreams on the trip of a lifetime

Part 1 • Part 2 Part Three URBANNA — That first night at sea as we steamed north up the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to enter the great circle passage bound for England, I dreamt of that beautiful line in a poem by Henry Wadsworth...

“Connecting to the ‘Trip of a Lifetime’” via Amtrak

Part 1 Part Two Because of that nasty worm called “Worry” that can take over one’s brain in a heartbeat and keep on squirming, we opted for a no-stress trip to New York on the train the day before the ship was slated for departure....

“So-called ‘Trip of a Lifetime’”

Part One I am writing “The Trip of a Lifetime,” a rather ironic title that necessitates the phrase “so-called,” because the trip I have just endured to celebrate my 60th wedding anniversary almost killed me from exhaustion, stress, time changes, sea sickness, travel delays, unplanned...

What should one do to celebrate a 60th wedding anniversary?

URBANNA — ‘Gracious sakes!” My grandmother would have exclaimed to hear of a marriage that lasted 60 years. That was probably because in those days people didn’t live as long as they do now, thus length of marriages were shorter. Yet, in today’s world a...
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