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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.
Tag Archives: Appalachia
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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Strange Doors, Moving Loops
Thinking about Writing THE THING-NESS OF THE BOOK “A book is a network.” Great phrase. Evocative. From new-publishing guru Todd Sattersten. I picked it up at a mind-widening webinar he hosted last week via O’Reilly TOC. (I highly recommend him and … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Expression, I:DEAS, Our digital culture, PAGE, Publishing, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, book, caretaker, family, Going to Solace, Hospice, literary, novel, South, story, women, writing
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Shaggy and Nosy and Loud
Thinking about Writing FIELD WORK A balmy Sunday afternoon. Bright sun. Cool air. I drive myself well out of town down a dusty road to a sheep farm. It features a modest farmhouse, not a mansion. Worn wooden fencing surrounded … Continue reading
Posted in Going to Solace, Home, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, food, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, Petaluma, South, Southern, 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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The Soul of Patience
Thinking about Writing (and Painting) A NOVEL DELAYED I see how these blogs work now. I thought I’d do a quick post of thanks to those of you who are already in line for my novel, “Going to Solace,” because, … Continue reading
Posted in I:DEAS, LIFE, PAGE, Publishing, The Little Things, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, Patience, South, Southern, women, Words, writing
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Boiled Peanuts
Thinking ’bout the South SQUISHY AND WEIRD This picture makes me happy. I took it last Thanksgiving when I was in the Blue Ridge Mountains taking pictures of everything. Why? Because my novel takes place in the Blue Ridge on … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Going to Solace, Home, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, South, Southern, women, writing
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How do you solve…
…a problem like Amanda? THOUGHTS ON A WRITER’S IDENTITY Hey, sports fans, I’m acutely aware that this is Blog Numero Uno. The Seed Blog. But I’m sorry to say, I can’t come up with a headline. I have no thesis statement. Amanda: she’s … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, LIFE, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, South, Southern, women, writing
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Amanda McTigue 