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- Yep. That’s me. Apparently I had something to say. Still do from time to time. Not much has changed except they don’t let me bring my squeezy toys with me to meetings. I’m not sure about this blog thing, but I think a lot about writing, about acting, about how to move people. So maybe we can think about some of those things together.
Category Archives: The South
D.A.R. 2.0
My mother was one. That means I’m one: a (big quotes here) “Daughter of the American Revolution.” I wouldn’t have known that if my dad hadn’t told me because my mother never spoke of it. Why? The thought “mortified” her, … Continue reading
On Tolerance and Toleration
Thinking ’bout the South THE LANGUAGE OF RESPECT My address says CA, but all I see from my writing desk these days are my old familiars, the mountains of NC. Given a continent’s remove from those parts, I speak of … Continue reading
Posted in Going to Solace, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, solace, South, Southern, women, writing
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Civility
Thinking ’bout the South THE SEMIOTICS OF REGARD Today’s New York Times ran one of those borderline-quaint regional features about the decline of manners in the South (“A Last Bastion of Civility”). I suppose it’s not easy to find an … Continue reading
Posted in Expression, Family, Going to Solace, Home, LIFE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, Civility, family, Going to Solace, Hospice, literary, Manners, novel, South, story, The South, women, writing
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“Why I Live at the P.O.”
Thinking ’bout the South SOCIAL MEDIA: OLD SCHOOL Great New York Times article this morning on the vanishing of little post offices around this country. I was lucky enough to “come up,” as we say in the South, summering in a … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Going to Solace, Home, LIFE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, Hospice, literary, Montreat, North Carolina, nostalgia, novel, post office, small town, South, Southern, women, writing
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“Don’t It Always Seem to Go that you Don’t Know What You’ve Got…”
Thinking ’bout the South ON BEAUTY UNRECOGNIZED That’s my mom on the right with her sister Mary. Could you just die? Are we not so clearly in Florida, what with the vegetation and the pom-pom of blossoms in mom’s great … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Home, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Beauty, Blue Ridge Mountains, family, fiction, Florida, literary, NorSouth, novel, Self-esteem, small town, Southern, women, writing
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