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Paddling With William Faulkner Through the Debris of Life
Five Festive Traditions of My Wacky Family
Five Festive Traditions of My Wacky Family
You may think we hang upside down from the rafters at Christmas, or throw purple socks in the air for New Year’s.
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Voting From Abroad
As the November 2018 Senate and House of Representatives elections in the U.S.A. approach, we are again struggling to vote from abroad. So it’s time to send this blog out again!
Voting From Abroad
My fingers tremble, my breath rasps. I flex my thigh muscles and prepare to leap . . . do the long jump . . . go far . . . over the ocean to reconnect with my people, my roots, my dirt.
But first, there’s this little thing called bureaucracy:
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The World Through The Hole in a Hanging Sock
The World Through the Hole in a Hanging Sock
UNITED STATESIAN LAUNDRY CULTURE
Texas, 1996, a rural location
My dad stared at our laundry line. “We used to do that.”Read More »
The Totem
A Texas Ranching Adventure: The Family Milk Cow
A Texas Ranching Adventure: The Family Milk Cow
Driving through the dark down a Texas highway, my husband at the wheel, I shone the flashlight at the book and read,Read More »
A Texas Ranching Adventure: They Paid a High Price
A Texas Ranching Adventure: They Paid a High Price
The Tree Was Witness
An ancient pecan tree was witness to the Jacksons’ violent deaths and, 140 years later, the tree provided shade for the people gathered together to remembering the Jacksons’ fates.Read More »
Looking Towards Hathersage
Looking Towards Hathersage
I pause in my daily walk along the edge of the English town I live in and gaze across a soon-to-be-developed meadow and on towards the hills of DerbyshireRead More »
The Meaning of Hair in My Life
The Meaning of Hair in My Life
For years, I did not think hairdos very important. My mother was always after me: “A little brushing would help,” she’d say.Read More »
