Southern Porch Settin' Paperback - 2016

Reed Tait is the pen name for two women who live in Alabama, one in a rural area outside of Birmingham, and the other in a rural area outside Mobile. They are both retired, one from a business career, the other from the field of banking investments and the medical field. They both grew up living in several states, one lived in the South all her life, the other one lived in the Midwest, the Northeast, and in Alaska, but has lived in the Deep South for over 50 years. One has been published in a magazine. The other is related to both Lewis Grizzard and Jeff Foxworthy. They came across a story that a great grandmother in the family wrote about her own life in the 1880s. They were impressed by the differences in her life as compared to theirs and the great number of changes that took place from then to now. They decided to record a few incidents from their own lives in the 1950s and 1960s, greatly fictionalize them, then invent a large number of new ones to be able to write the story of Delia and Essie. Their book targets those who are interested in what the old days were like, but it is also for the women who lived during the those times, and who had many of the same experiences as the characters. They wrote this book because they had a story to tell, but mostly because they each think the other one is the funniest woman on the planet. 2016