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Allen Johnson Jr.

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I live on Mercer Island, Washington, near Seattle, with my wife, Jill, my filmmaker son, Ben, who is now a weekend visitor, and three dogs, Sunshine, Piccolo and Chloe.

At the age of seventy-seven, I now pursue my two passions, writing and jazz guitar.

I was born and raised outside of Birmingham, Alabama. (You can take a Southerner out of the South but you can’t take the South out of a Southerner!)

As a boy I had the good fortune of growing up with the space and freedom to be outside, have adventures, explore and get into trouble. A boy’s purpose in life is to play, and the tantalizing possibility of getting into trouble added spice to that purpose.

I was also blessed with a rich heritage of story telling from the members of my wonderful, exten
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Southern Food

My grandfather loved to eat and ate like a European, piling up savory combinations of Southern cooking on the back of his fork which he kept in his left hand. My grandparents had a cook named Maggie Maccadory, a birdlike, tiny black woman who couldn’t have weighed a hundred pounds. Maggie was an artist who up until
about 1940 still cooked on a wood stove. In the tradition of most Southern cooks, mo Read more of this blog post »
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