REACHING OUT & DRAWING IN
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." Navy Admiral Grace Hopper Google "schools not teaching slavery" and...
BOOK CLUBS & THE THREADS THAT BIND
Something captivating -- very captivating -- happened from the moment Megan Easter of the Kanawha City (KC) Book Club invited me to meet...
FRIED APPLE PIES
If you've read my YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, you most certainly "tasted" Lila's fried apple pies. She fried "the juiciest apple pies...
STARVING ARTISTS
Not long after the release of my debut YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, I was invited to present the work to a group of low-income summer...
TRUMAN CAPOTE & SCISSORS
"I'm all for the scissors. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." Anyone who knows me -- family, friends, teachers,...
BACKYARD BEAUTIES
When I wrote my YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, I knew it would take place in Memphis and in St. Louis -- two areas where I spent part of...
WRITERS & AUTHORS
For as long as I can remember, I've been a writer -- short stories, journal/diary entries, poetry, essays, and most recently, novels for...
HONEYSUCKLE, SWEET HONEYSUCKLE
When I was a young girl growing up in Memphis, a honeysuckle vine grew feverishly outside my bedroom window. I awakened to its sweet,...
AUNT DODO & UNCLE HERMAN
Yes, they were real -- so very real. So many readers of Honeysuckle Holiday have asked, "Were Aunt Dodo and Uncle Herman real?" They...
ALL ABOARD!
When I was a kid growing up in Memphis, my family would travel by train every summer to visit relatives in St. Louis. Every time I heard...
