August 29 is the day that Orthodox Christians commemorate the beheading of Saint John the Baptist. A gruesome martyrdom, to…
In the October, 2014 (yes, it’s out—weird, right?) issue of Writer’s Digest Magazine, Jane Friedman has an article called, “The…
This is not a book review. That wouldn’t fit my “Mental Health Monday” theme, now would it? And yet I…
As a Christian, I have always believed in the transforming Grace of God. Just like I’ve always believed in so…
In 2012 Memphis author, Courtney Miller Santo, wrote her first novel as her master’s thesis for the University of Memphis’s…
As I continue to read about aging (just finished Diane Keaton’s wonderful new memoir, Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty,…
If you’re here for my usual “Faith on Friday” post, please come back next Friday. Or, because today is the…
We sat outside on the patio at Celtic Crossing, an Irish pub in the artsy Cooper Young neighborhood of Memphis,…
I grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s in Jackson, Mississippi, where I learned to play bridge in two arenas—around…
My prayer is against the deeds of the wicked. (Psalm 141:5) I couldn’t sleep last night. I turned out…