“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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What I’m Reading
I made an attempt to straighten up all the books on my night stand. As is usual, I move a book, I open a book, and then start reading again. I ended up with six books that I simply could not put away and remain on my ‘currently reading’ list. For years I only read…
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Returning from the Recent Interruption
Returning from a week away, then hosting visiting family, followed by attempting to pick up the threads of demanding everyday life has left me frazzled, numb, and, well, very often like a hen with her head chopped off. Where was I with anything remotely connected to my own creative projects? I stare at the white…
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Off to a Gathering of the Cousins
I leave today to drive myself and my mother to a gathering of ‘the Johnson girls’, my mother’s maternal cousins. We’re meeting in Savannah. It is always hard for me to leave home. All the packing and trying to make sure I didn’t forget anything, plus making certain everything here is in place– chicken and…
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Backyard Chicken Adventure Turns to Experience, or…
how I changed my mind about many things in 15 short weeks. Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country; … but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.–Katherine Anne Porter I have alternately…
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in May
We are grateful for more normal amount of rain this year, but to me it still seems low. The lace-cap hydrangea are blooming, but my blue hydrangea have not bloomed at all. I have seriously neglected my grandmother’s rose bushes, and they dropped all their leaves to blackspot. I am pleased that all six gardenias…
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The Chicken Adventure Thus Far
It is funny when we look back and see how we get involved in certain matters. I am often asked how I got started writing. My reply is quite literal: “Because my son went to school and I had no more children.” Some of you might remember back in January when I posted about being…
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