Lasik Surgery
On 5 November, I underwent lasik eye surgery transformation in Roanoke, VA, with Vistar Eye Centers. I’d dreamed of lasik since my teens.
Yesterday’s Mail and Today’s Greetings!
…I found my two contributor’s copies of the 2020 issue of Clinch Mountain Review. I’ve known for a while now that I had several pieces in this issue, but have been patiently sitting on that information until the magazine made its debut.
Poet Laureate
Recently, my good friend Gretchen McCroskey was named the Poet Laureate of the Poetry Society of Tennessee. It was done in a Zoom meeting. It was to remain a surprise to Gretchen; Gretchen hates surprises. Really, Gretchen loves surprises. She is like her friend...
Give Grief Its Hours
As we prepared for our feline daughter Ebony’s death last week, I received sage wisdom from my friend Angie, who told me, ‘Give grief its hours.” I’d never heard it phrased this way before, and it struck me how often we try to hurry through grief, when it is a process that we must bear, or it will overcome us in some other way.
Orchard Keepers
Sometimes you need to get away where no one knows your name. Where there is no one around except for the amazing guy who owns the place, and his amazing cat Dorie (and this time a family of feral kitties). A place where nature abounds, if that is your thing, for the...
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