The Help: Hurry to the Theater & Don’t Forget Your Hankie
A stellar cast. Extremely moving. "The Help" is an important movie. Be sure and dig out your tissues before the movie starts. You'll be dabbing throughout. Most poignant is the fact that although based on a novel, the plot is all too true. I was struck...
Show & Tell: “What I Did for My Summer Vacation”
I'm giving this summer the finger. Well, actually, I mean, well, the wave of us Mothers From Hell & Friends is the slightly raised third finger. And that's me above driving The Divorce Mobile in two-thousand-and-something-or-another. And I've...
“People on Purpose”
Another gem from Nashville-based (daily MUST read) "Spirit Coach" Gregory Fisher, via his June 16, "Gregory Fisher's Treat Yourself to Your Best" This post is entitled "Fingerprint:" "I see people every day who are struggling to...
Check out Stellar New Grass Sensation: Dread Clampitt!!
The music-literary-art scene has some notable relative newcomers; Garden & Gun magazine and "New Grass" sensation Dread Clampitt. Only problem is that this best new magazine--since the 80s--to come out of the South about the South, failed to name Dread...
C4U Workshop: The 4 Personality Subtypes of Asperger’s Syndrome
"You know how it is," said my friend who'd just returned from a national autism conference. "After awhile you've heard it all and nothing seems new." "Yes, I know," replied I--The Seminar Slut."But!" she went on to add...
The Cracker Queen: Superior Creative Nonfiction
“You need to read this book!” The refrain continued for two years, each time I saw my voracious book-reading friend, holly lu. Finally, she brought me her copy. Boy, howdy, did I need to read this book! The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life by Lauretta...
Middle School & Other Strategies
Sometimes reality sucks. (Or, we choose to perceive it that way.) I remember the summer of 14. Garnered the best tan of my life (luckily I eventually ceased my sun worship though it took another nearly 10 years). High school loomed and when July 4 exploded in flames...
