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Handkerchief
My father had a sneeze that would wake the dead. You could hear it from a quarter mile away on a clear day, and if you happened to be indoors in the same room--say, church or a crowded restaurant--people jumped, waiters startled,...
When Are You Going to Publish Your Book?
8 months. It's 8 months until my debut novel is published and officially launched into the world. Less time than it takes to grow a baby but no less arduous. I should qualify what sort of baby. It takes a baby elephant almost two years to gestate, and this process has...
The Great Unraveling
Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash Here in the warm, fertile South, things grow. Our county fairs are famous for tomatoes, pumpkins, and melons of mammoth proportions. My grandma’s house in the Florida panhandle sported a sleeping porch that was all but...
Something to Behold
Long-exposure of Jupiter & Saturn in alignment, December 21, 2020 Last night on the winter solstice, literally the darkest day of 2020, my son and I craned our necks skyward on the front lawn. “Can you see it?” I pointed. “Below the moon to the...
Are We There Yet?
Photo by Anna Utochkina on Unsplash As a kid, our family of seven regularly folded ourselves into our hierarchical territories in the station wagon and took off on a road trip to a campsite or the grandparents. Car trips with young, restless kids are predictable:...