author of literary fiction with a southern drawl
One day last week after a sunrise walk, the pups and I ran into a pair of identical twin sisters at the dunes. They were in their late sixties or maybe mid-seventies - hard to tell because they were wearing identical dark sunglasses and both had a beautiful head of dyed red hair - not [...]
I am very lucky to have the kind of face, or maybe it’s the vibe I give off – or maybe, more than likely, it’s the fact that I am a perpetual eavesdropper who doesn’t even try to hide it. Whatever the case may be, total strangers share some really personal and powerful stuff with [...]
If you read the previous blog, The Magic of New Orleans, then some of these names will look familiar. https://youtu.be/DB0mUYpDeZg
Three years ago, my cousin Glynda, asked if I wanted to go to New Orleans for Halloween with her and her husband Mike. Heck yeah, I wanted to go. Under normal circumstances my answer would have been yes, but especially three years ago, Glynda had been diagnosed with cancer a few months earlier and I’d [...]
So, I was living on the farm out in the middle of nowhere and loving it. I was driving back and forth to my house in East Nashville so I was pretty familiar with the route to the farm from the interstate. You hang a right at the big Jesus sign, follow the sharp curve [...]
If you read my blog post, Off her rocker, you know that I was in a bind. The offer on my house fell through, I had no job, and no plan B. Bad enough right? What I hadn't told you was that I had also given almost everything I had away. It started when I [...]
Last July I did something a little crazy. I decided to live the life I wanted, instead of the one I was working so hard to have. I put my house up for sale by owner and got an offer in a week without having any solid plans of what I was doing or where [...]