Running on Empty

As my faithful readers know, for many years I posted faithfully three times a week. Remember these categories? Mental Health…

Continue Reading →

Work-in-Progress? Anthology #4!

What’s Next? Yesterday I spoke (virtually on a Zoom webinar) to the Women’s Association of Hilton Head Island. Near the…

Continue Reading →

Chicken Soup For the Soul

Tangles and Plaques A few months ago my writer-friend Claire Fullerton suggested I submit an essay to the Chicken Soup…

Continue Reading →

Black History Month: Reflections (and a reading list) from a White Southern Woman

Black History Month is almost half over. But it’s not too late to do some reading to educate, awaken, or…

Continue Reading →

More Southern Writers in Isolation

Coastal Alabama Authors Check In A couple of weeks ago I did a post with entries from three authors who…

Continue Reading →

The Virgin of Prince Street

Expeditions into Devotion I fell in love with Sonja Livingston the first time I met her. That was back in…

Continue Reading →

Tell Me a Story

Pat Conroy, Angels, and Golden Bridges Whenever I speak at a bookstore or library about one of my books, someone…

Continue Reading →

Blurb Slut

Lifting One Another Up My favorite author Pat Conroy called himself a “blurb slut,” and was known for writing blurbs…

Continue Reading →