Council Bluffs, Iowa, where I grew up. By Gayle Lynds.  We had no front porch with chairs for sitting when I was young, but we did have a kitchen table. Southern writers like Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner and Eudora Welty are famous for crediting their relatives with front-porch storytelling that inspired them to write … Continue reading AT MY MOTHER’S KITCHEN TABLE