Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago, on January 4, I went for my quarterly check-up with my regular physician. I have several health issues, as most of you probably know.
Jan 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
I remember the semester that Russ and I were planning our wedding and I was taking Social Sciences with Dr Bill Robinson in my Masters classes online through UTK and working full-time in my then-new job at Northeast State Community College. Somehow, no matter the...
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...
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