“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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The Dog Can’t Kill It
I have a rosebush that my grandmother started from a twig she plucked from a bush at her mother’s home some sixty years ago. When we sold my grandmother’s home, I dug up that very same bush and hauled it eighteen hundred miles to plant at my home, where it has flourished. I keep starting new bushes…
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Jumping in Again
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. — Mahatma Gandhi Well, here I am, jumping in to the blogging world again. One thing about life, as long as we’re breathing, we can begin again. I started this blog back in February but…
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Writing is a Wholetime Job
Writing is a wholetime job; no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham It isn’t a question of will you write today. It is a question of what you will write. A writer writes, because he cannot not do so, and keep his sanity. I used…
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There Are No Ugly Babies
Some people like me. Some people don’t. You can never get everyone to like you, so why knock yourself out trying? — Claudette Colbert, great American actress. You wrote something. You conceived your baby and brought it forth with all of your talent, skill, and passion, and some undefinable magic that compels you to write.…
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Open the Door
A new cat has come! When I went to the barn to get the horses’ grain, I found a large grey tabby on the seat of the tractor. “Well, hello there.” The cat answered, “Meow.” I was delighted. For several minutes, we carried on quite the conversation in which he did rolls and twists of…
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Hello world, this is CurtissAnn!
Coming at you from the far reaches of Oklahoma, so far into the backwoods that we do not even have high-speed internet. The phone lines to our particular forty acres of paradise are well over twenty years old and far from the switching stations; even dialup is slow. When I moved here, we were the end of the…
“Matlock writes about generous people striving to live and love well. She does it beautifully.
~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 