“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Things I Learned in the Past Week
I learned that many people think of Sunday as the beginning of the week, and many calendars are set up that way. I think of it as the end, the day to rest and regroup for the week to come. I learned that grass in Alabama dies if it gets in severe drought. I was…
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Being Old South
This explains me and my writing, and pretty much the tendencies of my entire family: “In the South, perhaps more than any other region, we go back to our home in dreams and memories, hoping it remains what it was on a lazy, still summer’s day twenty years ago.” ~Willie Morris I came across this…
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Things I Learned in the Past Week
The past week I learned to ‘go easy’ when digging a hole in the ground. I realized that I tend to go at digging a hole as if time is about to run out, and I must get it dug before either a buzzer or my energy runs out. No wonder I had difficulty walking…
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Rainey’s Chicken Pot Pie
A kind reader recently sent me a letter expressing appreciation of the Valentine Series, and asking for the recipe for the chicken pot pie made with cream gravy that Rainey Valentine makes for her uncle in Lost Highways. Here’s the truth folks: I am not a cook. I am a fiction writer. When I wrote…
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Why Write?
The days have passed, full of themselves, and it has been hard to squeeze in time to post. When I let time go by like that without posting, I begin to wonder why I write here at all. That’s how it works for writing, and I imagine for any creative endeavor. Life on earth does…
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Taking Time
One day last week, by the time the sun had come up over the trees, I had gone through my morning rituals, cleaned the bathroom, started a load of laundry and set off on a bike ride. By the time I returned from the bike ride that I normally enjoy, I realized little joy had…
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