Jan 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve wrestled with this blog post for days, no, for nights now. Because it is at night that I see the disturbing images of people overtaking the Capitol building and looting it and disrupting American government at its core. I don’t write political pieces. I’m not a...
Jan 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
This coming week, January 5, marks the 19th anniversary of my marriage with Russ, and the 20th anniversary of our first face-to-face meeting. That’s right; as hokey as it sounds, we got married exactly one year from the date that we met face-to-face, having “met” 8...
Dec 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sometimes a blog gets blogged about and this is such a blog. I was recently interviewed by Jenna Steiner Fyffe for her blog Tales From the Backroom, Episode 3, “Notorious… Tales of a Duranie,” wherein she interviews a few of us Duranies and then culminates with the...
Dec 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
In February, I’m honored and excited to announce that I will be leading a Fiction Writing Workshop for the Mildred Haun Conference. The Conference started 12 years ago and is “an attempt to explore and define Appalachian literature and culture for ourselves and for...
Dec 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s that merry time of year again, and Russ and I decided to make a date to go to the Speedway in Lights after dinner at the Mad Greek (which doesn’t sound like a very happy place, but is quite delicious and has killer calzones). For those of you unfamiliar with...
Nov 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m going to be honest: blogging is difficult for me. I’d much rather just do a Facebook post than to write something newsy for my website. And then to try to match it up with a picture just about wears me out, because it has to be a horizontal photograph that seems...
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