I feel Grey Today
Most days I feel purple – it’s my signature color, after all. But today – today, I feel grey. It’s February. It has been raining for three days, I think, but my days are running together. I had norovirus over the weekend, and it has left me depleted on many levels. I,...
On Being Tired
“She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.” – Virginia Woolf “She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.” – Virginia Woolf I feel this...
35th High School Class Reunion
After months of preparations and excited planning, the 35th Class Reunion of the Class of 1989 met in Tazewell, Virginia, over the weekend, some members coming from a far away as Alabama (Jeff Price), Arkansas (Robbie Yost), and Florida (Kenny Lowe). Some class...
INTERVIEW: Linda Hooper and Sharon Shadrick
What do eighth graders in a small Appalachian town in south-central Tennessee know about the Holocaust? More than you’d imagine. I just got back from Whitwell, TN, about thirty-five minutes northwest of Chattanooga, where I interviewed co-authors Linda Hooper and...
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