>Annie Dillard says he’s one of the best poets alive. And on Saturday, I sat around a table with seventeen…
>I’ve been struggling with what to write today. There are lots of reasons for my hesitancy—traveling, house renovations, depression—and honestly,…
>“Persephone ate the pomegranate seeds that Hades offered her in the underworld; this guaranteed she and her mother would be…
>I fell in love with Três Taylor’s work about ten minutes before I met him. I was at the River…
>We bought our current home in 2001, three years after my father’s untimely death at age 68. My mother was…
>“People don’t want to pay $25 for something they know.” David Magee, author of 12 published books (in just 8…
>Three hours into my nine-hour drive down to Seagrove Beach on Monday, I stopped at Lakeland Nursing Home in Jackson,…
>About once or twice a month I have a restless, almost sleepless night. It seems I can sustain some minimal…
>That’s the question Augusten Burroughs asked in his 2003 memoir, Dry. It’s a gritty description of his life before and…
>One week after the Southern Women Writers Conference, I’m home and inspired. But not ready to draft the next chapter…