“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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Intention for 2025
Happy New Year! I have done what I do each year at this time — choose an intention on which to focus for the coming year. I guess I’ve made it a habit, and I’m delighted at that. Last year my guiding words of intention were Choose Life. Of course I forgot the phrase about
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Finding Inspiration in Fallow Ground: A Writer’s Journey
I’ve been camping and gardening and building and researching my family genealogy and crocheting. Everything but writing. There has been plenty to write about–heaven knows I generally always have something to say–yet even my journal lay unopened for days on end. I have been living life rather than writing about it, or even speaking much
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Tennessee Trip, Part 2
As I started to edit this post, I realized the date, September 11, which always makes me hear in my mind President Roosevelt’s voice, speaking of the Pearl Harbor bombing, saying, “A day that will live in infamy.” I would say that 9/11 qualifies for the same. From the vantage point of my years and
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Girl Camper goes to Tennessee, Part 1
Faith and I went all the way to Fall Creek Falls State Park in Tennessee, and guess what–the famous Falls were mostly dry. That fact seemed of little consequence because of the beauty of the land. Even viewed from racing along the interstate highway, the green hills and mountains of Tennessee are awe inspiring. It
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On the Road Again
Faith and I are on the road again, heading north. Our ultimate destination will be a gathering of Girl Campers in Tennessee. But with Alabama being such a long state, we’ve come halfway and are stopped at Oak Mountain State Park. Oh, I am enjoying delightful cooler temperatures! As I was backing the camper into
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Life goes On
I didn’t intend to take a break from writing, didn’t even know there was such a thing for me, but I have more or less done so. I haven’t touched the novella I started some months ago. In recent weeks I have read a couple of good fiction books and delighted in streaming classic black
“Matlock writes about generous people striving to live and love well. She does it beautifully.
~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 