In a few weeks, I'll submit my memoir Finding Josephine to my editor - the most thrilling, rewarding and terrifying work I've ever done in my life. To keep me company during this final stretch and my anxiety at bay, I've been doing a lot of reading including a steady diet of The … [Read more...]
Slavery’s Descendants
Along this journey of digging up my family's history, I met many other descendants of slavery including members of the national organization Coming to the Table. I was honored to be asked to help edit an anthology of some of the members' stories. … [Read more...]
Treasure Chest Thursday: The MacDowell Colony
My first real writing job out of college was a part time position at my local daily newspaper. I called the cops twice a day in our county to see if anything interesting had happened in the past 24 hours and I wrote obituaries. Every now and again, my editor assigned me a light … [Read more...]
Hello, again.
About a year ago, I realized that my blog was broken. I tried to figure out what was wrong with it, but alas, life had given me other priorities. I had a Master of Fine Arts degree to finish, and a thesis project to submit that was different than what I was working on in my … [Read more...]