Chrissie’s Blog
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 recently, all the way...
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...
Thousand-Year Floods
This is the second thousand-year flood I have skirted. The first was two years ago when I was trapped for a few hours at the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, KY, at the Appalachian Writers Workshop. I didn’t leave my safe place high on the hill in Preece to go...
Writing Update for August – Mid-September
I’m staying as busy as ever with writing. I’ll list the activities I’ve had in August through mid-September, plus any awards or publications I’ve been notified about. Listing is the easiest way to do it and have it make any sense, trust me, lol! Activities: August 5 –...
Table Rock Writers Workshop
Table Rock Writers Workshop was a fantabulous experience again this year, not that I doubted for even a moment that it wouldn’t be! I remained under the tutelage of Denton Loving, this year in the Poetry for Beginners class. We had ten astonishing poets in our class,...