Quite a Year for Plums By Bailey White.

THERE are bellowing alligators, the world's loudest frogs, and a man-eating clamshell from the Philippines at what's left of the family estate where Bailey White lives with her mama, Rose.

But if radio can give us its own elusive kind of hyper reality - slices of life embroidered by the imagination of the listener - Bailey White may be the ultimate radio personality, someone at once precisely the same and entirely different from the voice people hear on the air.

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home (ISBN 0-201-62670-5) is a 1995 collection of essays by Bailey White.

Video Interview given April 11, 2008 as part of Bailey White's induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

SLEEPING AT THE STARLITE MOTEL, by Bailey White.

MAMA MAKES UP HER MIND, by Bailey White.

The essays are quite savory: Bailey White writes of a guest room that bites back; Cameron Sullivan of buying a carton of beer to draw slugs from her garden while eight months' pregnant, and the shock at the supermarket checkout counter.

The courtroom journalist, Bailey White, won the county championship for journalism and participated in the California mock trial championships for both the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seasons.

QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS, by Bailey White.

Quite a Year for Plums By Bailey White.

THERE are bellowing alligators, the world's loudest frogs, and a man-eating clamshell from the Philippines at what's left of the family estate where Bailey White lives with her mama, Rose.

But if radio can give us its own elusive kind of hyper reality - slices of life embroidered by the imagination of the listener - Bailey White may be the ultimate radio personality, someone at once precisely the same and entirely different from the voice people hear on the air.

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home (ISBN 0-201-62670-5) is a 1995 collection of essays by Bailey White.

Brallier won book publishing's LMP Individual Achievement Award in recognition of his marketing campaign for three New York Times best sellers: Reinventing Government by David Osborne, Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White, and Touchpoints by T. Berry Brazelton.

SLEEPING AT THE STARLITE MOTEL, by Bailey White.

MAMA MAKES UP HER MIND, by Bailey White.

The essays are quite savory: Bailey White writes of a guest room that bites back; Cameron Sullivan of buying a carton of beer to draw slugs from her garden while eight months' pregnant, and the shock at the supermarket checkout counter.

The courtroom journalist, Bailey White, won the county championship for journalism and participated in the California mock trial championships for both the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seasons.

QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS, by Bailey White.