When Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality came out last April, I was thrilled to find my essay, “Chiaroscuro: Shimmer…
In his wonderful blog post on Monday, my friend Lee Martin, wrote about “The Necessity of the Beautiful Sentence.” He…
Forgive my absence… I took a week off from the blog while on vacation with my family… first time in…
I’m at the beach with my family this week, so no time for writing… and yet I didn’t want to…
I’m reading a wonderful book, Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer, which is inspired by the friendship between Flannery O’Connor…
A couple of weeks ago my husband and I got a new king-sized mattress and box springs. FREE. The one…
Earnest Hemingway was ill and unable to attend the banquet where he would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature…
In my post on Monday about the 2013 Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference, I mentioned Lee Gutkind’s remarks about the sacrifices…
Last Wednesday I wrote about rejection. Today I’m going to share some potentially good news, and it’s happy hour, so…
I’m still processing the four days I just spent helping direct the 2013 Oxford (Mississippi) Creative Nonfiction Conference, with Neil…