First let me say that I try not to whine on this blog. But after a little whining in Wednesday’s…
I’ve been reading Elizabeth Winder’s new biography, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953. The book…
My essay, “Eat, Drink, Repeat,” which was published in The Shoe Burnin’: Stories of Southern Soul, last November, chronicles a…
Unlike today, it wasn’t Friday the 13th. In 1970, June 13 fell on a Saturday. “The Long…
Please forgive me for playing hooky from my blog on Mental Health Monday. We were in Charleston and it was…
This weekend my husband and I will be visiting “the Holy City” (as the locals call it). No, we’re not…
Last Wednesday I gave a preview of the YOK Writing Workshop I would be attending this past weekend in…
[In May of 2013 I met a wonderful woman at the Creative Nonfiction Conference in Oxford, Mississippi. Her name is…
This Friday I’m headed to Oxford, Mississippi, for the 2014 YOK Workshop for writers. It will be my 7th year…
I’ve written about this a number of times on this blog, but today my husband and I visited the graves…