I count Chef Nico Romo among my dearest friends. When he first came to Fish Restaurant, he agreed to make a silly video with me, a loud Southern stranger who screamed in his French kitchen. It was our first encounter.
Maybe we understood each other. Even then.Continue Reading
Humans have inhabited the Natchez Trace corridor for thousands of years. Their voices electrify the air, skip across blades of grass, swoosh between leaves and Spanish moss.
At Emerald Mound, souls shimmer everywhere.Continue Reading
Readers make writing worthwhile. While it would be great to be Neil Gaiman or Joyce Carol Oates, I’ll take MY readers.
Especially when they reach out and share what reading Not Without My Father meant to them.
Butte, Montana’s Sabrina Laitinen is one of those readers. She won my book in a Goodreads contest, but she got so much more.
Thank you, Sabrina, for reaching out to me! Notes like yours make this crazy life worth it.
How to Make a Memory, in Sabrina’s words:Continue Reading
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