“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Never Say Die
Many of you will remember this Christmas cactus that I had ‘killed’ by leaving it out in frigid temperatures the first winter after we moved here to LA–Lower Alabama. Oh, my heartbreak when I saw it the next morning! The succulent leaves had turned to mush. An experienced gardener said, “I’m sorry to tell you,…
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Dining Gluten-Free at Writer Conferences
A few weeks ago a writer said to me that she was nervous about having to deal with eating gluten-free at an upcoming writer conference. Oh, my, did that bring back memories. Navigating three to five days of eating out for a person with celiac disease or gluten-intolerance can be a nerve-wracking proposition. One slip,…
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Care and Feeding of Your Gluten-Intolerant Loved One
Recently my mother and I made a quick weekend trip to visit cousins. “Now, what can we get for you two to eat?” one of my dear cousin asked. “Oh, don’t worry about it,” was my reply. “We can eat a lot of what you do, and I’ll bring food. I can buy stuff there,…
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My Celiac Story…
…or subtitled: Thankful I Didn’t Die in the Meantime. May is National Celiac Awareness Month. For me, it a reminder of where I was ten years ago, with my body collapsing from a myriad of painful symptoms that I was to learn were caused by a little known and baffling condition, one I may have…
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My Favorite Writing Blogs
This year for Lent I gave up my avid watching of television news. I had become addicted, and, yes, just like my dear late Big Mama, talking back to people on the television screen. I gave it up, whew! not going back. And I find anything of any import that I need to hear pops…
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~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 