Category: Books
What I Read, Watched, & Listened to in October
I thought I’d put together a brief list sharing my best of the best in October. I thought by only sharing what really knocked my socks off would result in a short piece. However, day by day I kept adding to it and, … Continue reading What I Read, Watched, & Listened to in October
Grieving Hope Reading on Youtube
Where you can hear the Southern drawl I don’t think I have! 😆 (Cross-post from my Substack) A while ago I mentioned that my debut chapbook, Offset Melodies, was recently released by ElJ Editions in the collection Grieving Hope. The collection contains … Continue reading Grieving Hope Reading on Youtube
Preorders Open for My 1st Prose Chapbook
Last August I submitted a manuscript to an open call by the independent press, ELJ Editions. Five micro chapbooks were selected to be included in one volume and mine was one. To say I was happily surprised is an understatement! The entire process with ELJ Editions has been a pleasure. Many thanks to Editor Diane Gottlieb and Founder & Publisher Ariana D. Den Bleyker. I’m pleased that preorders are now available here. My chapbook, Offset Melodies, is all prose, consisting of micro and flash creative nonfiction and autofiction. I’m excited to be published with four phenomenal women writers: Kim Steutermann … Continue reading Preorders Open for My 1st Prose Chapbook
Book Giveaway!
Two years ago on August 9, we posted our first story in the all volunteer run SugarSugarSalt Magazine. Jamy Bond and I started SSS to give previously published Creative Nonfiction – memoir, personal essays, flash CNF – a second life. Everyone who reads or are published in online magazines and journals knows how quickly issues appear then disappear into the online archives. Both of us personally felt the thrill of publication then the sadness of our work possibly never being read again. So we decided to start a magazine that would bring new eyes to the previously published work of our … Continue reading Book Giveaway!
Where a Book May Lead You
I’m reading Tom Lake by Anne Patchett. I reached a passage where the girls and mom are discussing what was the happiest day of her (mom’s) life. I paused, thinking about what might be the happiest day of my life. I cannot say. I’ve had many happy days; my wedding day, the day I was reunited with my sister after 10 years apart, the day my husband and I moved to New Orleans to begin our adult life together, other days not so momentous but, really, just ordinary days when I (& we) touched perfection for a minute, hour, day. A thread … Continue reading Where a Book May Lead You
Hearts
So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end – not mother and father, not wife or … Continue reading Hearts
Oak Tree and Fern
“Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The spring sunshine sifted through the young green leaves. Gay trills of song were everywhere. There were little hollows … Continue reading Oak Tree and Fern
Pandemic Reading: Writers Share Their Picks
With the pandemic now (arguably) in it’s 8th month, I’ve been noticing lots of talk about books on social media. It looks like reading is enjoying a boom and that’s a good thing! In the past few months, though, I find that my reading choices are pickier than usual. Memoirs and Poetry are probably my favorite genres but I have loved a good dystopian novel (read Blindness by Jose Saramago or Station Eleven by Emily St. Mandel). However, I seem to have lost my taste for the dystopian in books and in tv. When I try to read or watch, … Continue reading Pandemic Reading: Writers Share Their Picks
What’s Happening
In my NaPoWriMo World – nothing. It’s apparent I’m not going to be able to participate this year so I’ve given myself permission to be ok with it. My days seem to fly by and, honestly, I seem to have … Continue reading What’s Happening
