Mar 1, 2017 | reading & recs
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Glennon Doyle Melton’s Love Warrior. It’s a book about which I have a lot of conflicting emotions, and I will hold those for another time. But just last night, as I was rendering...
Feb 8, 2017 | reading & recs
AROUND THE HOLIDAYS, Tim and I made a commitment to each other to spend more time reading (AKA less time watching television). Then we instituted a Reading Happy Hour, and three or four times a week, we (AKA he) builds a fire, pours a glass of wine...
Sep 7, 2016 | reading & recs
IN 2012 I LISTENED to the audiobook of the best new book of the decade*, Rules of Civility. It took about three pages to make this proclamation, and by the end of the story I confidently pronounced Rules to be the perfect novel and a new American Classic. Guys. It is...
Dec 20, 2015 | writing & work
~ AN HOMAGE ~ December 8, 2011 To Ms. Lee Smith, First may I say Merry Christmas to You and Yours. Second may I apologize, for this letter has been a long time coming, too long some would say. You see I have been reading your books for many years and feel like we are...
Jan 11, 2015 | writing & work, travel & inspiration, 30 Days of Joy
It surprises me, I have to say, how aware of it I feel sitting here by the pool in this most lovely courtyard in Key West. I am alone, you see, traveling alone, something that is not necessarily new to me. And still the solo nature of it all has heightened every sense...
May 25, 2014 | writing & work
Long before I knew the bluebirds had fledged, I declared May 17th a day for the books, a sort of anno Domini event that would forever divide my life into the before and the after. I had just returned from a full day at the South Carolina Book Festival, you see, a day...
