Since my first book, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s, is coming out soon (release date is…
I’m reading my fourth and fifth books of 2017 simultaneously, as I often do. Especially when they’re so different. That…
Flying to and from Austin (through Atlanta, of course) gave me several extra hours of reading time this weekend, so…
A few years ago I was participating in a series of half-day writing workshops in Oxford, Mississippi, led by Barry…
A couple of months ago I announced that I am editing another anthology, So Y’all Think You Can Write: Southern…
In the wake of the news of The Booksellers at Laurelwood’s closing in Memphis, I’ve been sad and somewhat in…
I’m excited to have 11 literary events scheduled for 2017 so far, in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and North Carolina.…
This morning I read these words from today’s reading in the Orthodox calendar I often refer to with my Morning…
Today is the Feast of Theophany in the Orthodox Church. Historically it’s been as big a feast as Christmas, with…
Yesterday I finished reading my first book of 2017—Joshilyn Jackson’s latest novel The Opposite of Everyone (Harper Collins, 2016). What…