A Writer Writes.: The Shopping Season

News, Lies, Legends, Tall Tales, and Short Stories; The Ramblings of a Southern Writer...all works are the sole property of the author and are protected under U.S. copyright laws. ... So I went Christmas shopping last Sunday at the Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville. After swimming through a tsunami of shoppers, excited children, exhausted dads, and bargain crazed moms, I found a small island of a bench near the center of the galleria where I beached myself for a while. ...