August 31, 2015
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Where do you get your stories?
My debut novel, which is not yet published, (two literary agents are looking at it—please say a prayer AND cross your fingers), is about things I know everything about, and things I know nothing about except what I’ve read. Take the chapter set in a Korean orphanage. I’ve never lived in an orphanage, nor been
August 24, 2015
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You are made to do good work
We’re more than halfway through summer! I love summer, so I checked Twitter for summery tweets: #summertime Paris Hilton loves summer in Ibiza, where she posed in a swimsuit Matt Bolus is on a beautiful Gulf Coast beach cutting up fresh coconuts TammieLovesDDub floated down the Manistee on Sunday afternoon Candace Bure (of DWTS fame)
July 22, 2015
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The Worst Advice My Mother Gave Me
I came up with my journaling how to because long ago, in a galaxy far away in Indiana, my mother told me this: if you can’t say something good about a person, say nothing at all. I was young and impressionable and decided then and there not to say anything bad about anyone. I kept
June 3, 2015
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When you don’t want to leave: Pull a Geneva
Geneva who? Aunt Geneva was a diva; a genteel, gray-haired diva. She was born into a poor farm family in 1918 and achieved two distinctions while attending college in Cincinnati during the Great Depression. She was the first person from Turkeyfoot, Kentucky to go to college, and while there became the most popular girl on
May 6, 2015
April 8, 2015
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Dealing with grief
I went to Kiawah Island to get over the death of my father and the loss of my job. Silly me. A ten day retreat can’t heal such loss. Can it? My second day there I visited Indigo, the charming island book store. The proprietor greeted me as if continuing a previous conversation. “We’ve moved
April 6, 2015
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Move, migrate, and get on board!
Some years ago my brother struck up a conversation with famed Kentucky poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry. He’d traveled five hours to hear him speak at a conference, and in the way of anyone raised Southern they started telling stories. One thing led to another until my pediatrician/beekeeper sibling promised to send Wendell a
March 18, 2015