People will fight over the origin of a name. History records the stories of the winners. In the Tennessee Valley, the Yuchi lost, and their story was pounded underfoot during the Trail of Tears.

Water laps through rock and tickles my toes. It carries the stories of those who came before me.Continue Reading

The Make a Memory cards from my earliest appearances are coming in. Today, I’m featuring several Make a Memory submissions from New Orleans’ Garden District Book Shop.

If you’re ever in New Orleans, grab your Go Cup and suck in the scenery as you stroll the Garden District’s back streets. No route will disappoint, as long as you end up at 2727 Prytania Street and Garden District Book Shop. Britton and his team have assembled an eclectic mix of recommended reads (including my titles). They ooze enthusiasm about books, and you want some of that to rub off on you.
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We make a lifetime of memories only to remember a fraction of them. Even healthy brains can only recall a percentage of what we store. Why can’t we purge unhappy memories, like Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

According to a recent RadioLab broadcast on Memory and Forgetting…….

Maybe. We. Can.Continue Reading