Heroes

Heroes

This past Saturday, Russ and I started the day early, arriving to our local polling place for early voting around 8:15 a.m. There was already a line and the doors were to open at 9:00 a.m. It had rained earlier, and the sun peeked out from behind the clouds in...
Duran Duran Collection

Duran Duran Collection

My name is Chrissie Anderson Peters and I’m a Duranie. There is no 12-step program for us. I’ve looked from time to time, ‘cos heaven knows it isn’t easy or cheap to be dedicated to this band!

Lasik Surgery

Lasik Surgery

On 5 November, I underwent lasik eye surgery transformation in Roanoke, VA, with Vistar Eye Centers. I’d dreamed of lasik since my teens.

Yesterday’s Mail and Today’s Greetings!

Yesterday’s Mail and Today’s Greetings!

…I found my two contributor’s copies of the 2020 issue of Clinch Mountain Review. I’ve known for a while now that I had several pieces in this issue, but have been patiently sitting on that information until the magazine made its debut.

Poet Laureate

Poet Laureate

Recently, my good friend Gretchen McCroskey was named the Poet Laureate of the Poetry Society of Tennessee. It was done in a Zoom meeting. It was to remain a surprise to Gretchen; Gretchen hates surprises. Really, Gretchen loves surprises. She is like her friend...
Give Grief Its Hours

Give Grief Its Hours

As we prepared for our feline daughter Ebony’s death last week, I received sage wisdom from my friend Angie, who told me, ‘Give grief its hours.” I’d never heard it phrased this way before, and it struck me how often we try to hurry through grief, when it is a process that we must bear, or it will overcome us in some other way.