nlbarber

My mother was a good plain cook, too. She doesn't cook anymore, though, except what little she does to keep herself fed. When I go visit her, we have a repertoire of restaurants we hit. I get my fried okra fix from Lubys, my barbecue from Bodacious, and so forth [g].

Honestly, I don't know exactly where my relatives came from, just what my mother's told me, and she didn't get that specific. My cousin the genealogist is from my dad's side of the family.

There seem to be far fewer Barbers out there than you'd think, for some reason, which is why I brought it up.

But I can tell you that my Barber grandparents made it into a volume of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Because they both cut hair for a living [g].