Janna Zonder
Pat Conroy Broke My Heart -- In the best possible way
I had not read Pat Conroy's novel, The Great Santini, when I walked into a movie theatre in 1982. I knew only that the film based on that...
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Writing My Way Home
This Blog cannot be branded! It's all over the place! Hope it lifts your spirits, challenges your assumptions, and sometimes makes you laugh out loud. It would be a lot easier if I wrote recipes.
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Janna Zonder
What A Wonderful World This Could Be
I found it impossible to hurry through Lee Zacharias' What A Wonderful World This Could Be. I kept stopping to mark passages so I could...
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They Carried Me
My dear friend, Lynn Rose Curtin, wrote a lovely song honoring mothers called "You Carry Me" as part of a mixed-media art project. The...
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The Earth Is A Sentient Being
It has occurred to me several times in the last few tumultuous years that the biggest mistake we humans are making is to view our planet...
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Please Take Activity
My husband and I were planning to have some work done on our home a while back, and we called a man who had been recommended to us for an...
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Why Your Parents Are Grumpy . . .
I'll make this short and sweet. If your parents are over fifty, every friggin' joint in their body aches. They weeded the garden? They...
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Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA by TaRessa Stovall
TaRessa Stovall does an excellent job of pulling the reader into her compelling story of growing up "mixed" in America. Stovall is the...
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The Unmasked Crusader
Because a small percentage of people refuse to wear masks inside public buildings, all of my outings have become adventures in...
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Feeling Love On A Sunny Day
We are dressed for an 8x10 publicity shot, a middle-aged couple looking to say something about our music through our eyes, our clothes,...
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And The Crows Took Their Eyes
I have long been a fan of Vicki Lane's writing. From her Elizabeth Goodweather mystery series to her stand-alone novels, she has kept me...
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Scam Likely
A couple of weeks ago, I was given the challenge of writing a 100-word piece that contained the word "frolicking." Well, frolicking can...
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Thinking Of Ahmaud Arbery
Most of us know the story of Ahmaud Arbery's murder by now. He was a young, black man out for a jog in a neighborhood near Brunswick,...
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Flowers, Just Because
I plant the flowers for them, and they give me life in return. Not a bad trade.
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Who Is Your Them?
Is it white people, for you? That would be understandable. White people, especially the affluent ones in power, aren't looking too good...
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I Secretly Wanted To Be A Workaholic
Purchasing Dr. Bryan Robinson's new book, #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life, was a bit of a subversive act for me. I didn't...
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Remember the writer behind the book
A friend of mine, the talented artist Susan Saul, wrote a Facebook post about a month ago on how insulting and frustrating it is for...
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Before I became a writer . . .
Before I became a writer, I was a reader. I can't remember a time when I didn't read. My habit started early with the products in my...
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Hauntingly Beautiful
"Things that happen in your childhood come back to haunt you more and more as you get older, and once you are alone you no longer pretend...
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