I think things are headed towards Spring. That sounds crazy after last week’s snow storm, but Saturday the sun was pouring down like paint over the Sherwin Williams globe and there was a warmth in the light I hadn’t felt since September. The sunlight is life here in the Deep South and it’s a birthright we’ve come to expect like warm food and good stories. There’s a lot about this land that...
Sometimes I miss California. Some of my family moved there when I was young and once we’d traveled west to see them, California became more than another state on the map; it became a state of mind. It was a place with gentler weather and attitudes that believed in potential as much as my home state believed in realism, or at least that’s how it seemed at the time. Granted, this was between the late 60’...
Sometimes I miss California. Some of my family moved there when I was young and once we’d traveled west to see them, California became more than another state on the map; it became a state of mind. It was a place with gentler weather and attitudes that believed in potential as much as my home state believed in realism, or at least that’s how it seemed at the time. Granted, this was between the late 60’...
There are lots of books about young women. And there are lots of books about gorgeous women. There are books about tall women, women who don’t realize how lovely they are and too damn many books about women who stay thin or physically fit without effort. Now a lot of these gals aren’t bad characters; heck, some of them are my long-time favorites but it does get tiresome to run into the same type of heroine,...
One of the amazing powers of literature is its ability to draw aside the curtain. Writers who have experienced other roles in life use their background for a book and the readers get a glimpse of life-in-the-trenches written by someone who knows what they’re talking about. Want to see World War I as a medic? Pick up Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. How much of Mad Men is true? Try Jerry Della Fem...