Local Author Ponders Completion of a Life Project The title of this piece, a snatch of phrase taken from my poet’s notebook, popped in my head one day and I wrote it down. That’s what a writer does. A wise one, anyway.
A Day-and-Date Drop of A Key Memoir Chapter Two years after the vehicular tragedy which derailed my life psychically if not quite physically, I had “gotten on with it,” as they say. By the time of October 23, 1989, I had recovered enough to again hold enormous dreams in my heart and mind, and although […]
A Lunch Hour After Which Nothing Will Be the Same In honor of the 29th anniversary of Loose Lucy’s in Five Points, here’s an excerpt from the memoir about a moment which changed everything. Enjoy.
During the same era as the ‘trailer trash’ saga, one day Pa-paw and I drove over to Hartsville to an auction yard there to look for a particular vehicle he had in mind to sell on his car lot. Little did I know this casual jaunt up U. S. Highway 1 passing Bethune and Cassett […]
Author Teases 2022 Memoir with Another Chapter Drop Nothing blew my mind like an amazing 1987 college trip to New York with Dr. Franklin Ashley, my first college writing mentor, who carried his young scribes up to the big city for the long weekend of their lives.
An excerpt from the upcoming memoir Shopkeep, a draft of which cools in the drawer before we start taking it apart and putting it back together again later this year. I suspect we’ll bring it out late next year as part of the Loose Lucy’s 30 year anniversary PR push. This is one of the […]
The Tale of Expanding an Old Magazine Piece Almost a dozen years ago, one of my many writing-journey thrills and accomplishments came in the form of a co-written international magazine cover story.
Author Calls First Draft of Latest Opus ‘Complete’ It’s still Winter 2021, but I’m done with the draft of my memoir Shopkeep. That’s well ahead of the target deadline of ‘sometime in the spring,’ which is no way to set a deadline. In fact, it’s completely antithetical to the method I teach my writing students, […]
Gen X calls bullshit on your narrative. Why is this? Because we were left alone to figure it out on our own. And have come out all the better for it.
Author Knows of No Sweeter Feeling Than Being Ahead of Schedule The numbers don’t lie, a statement which in this era deserves a cynical snicker:
