Posts Tagged "East Tennessee"

Stand Up, Pam Neal!

Sometimes in the midst of seemingly ordinary circumstances, you have the privilege of meeting  amazing people doing extraordinary things. This has been my experience this week with Pam Neal, the ...

Meeting Readers

We’re home! After seventeen book events plus travel time, I’ve been away three weeks– and have shared ANGEL face to face with approximately two hundred twenty people in a variety ...

The Pirates and the Apocalypse

This is a true story. On October 4th of 1960, my brother had a pirate party for his sixth birthday. My brilliant, creative and artistic mother had created a virtual ...

Cats and Dogs

I was seven years old when I got a cat. Her name was Whiskers and she lived to be a grand old dame. The fact of her longevity certainly lends ...

Wild Child

I’m often asked if ANGEL is autobiographical. The story itself is pure fiction, but Angel and I grew up in the same time and place, and even if my family ...

Slant of Light –Reprise

When we were growing up, school started on the day after Labor Day, an event as fixed in the rhythm of the year as any holiday. We could set our ...

Slant of Light

We’re in the shift now, those weeks when the light begins to pierce the summer haze and  belies the still long, hot days. There’s the hint of change– a slight ...