chrissie anderson peters
Appalachian Author
Chrissie Anderson Peters is a Southwest Virginia native and the author of three books: Dog Days and Dragonflies, Running From Crazy, and Blue Ridge Christmas. Her writing can also be found in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Mildred Haun Review, Still: The Journal, and Clinch Mountain Review, among other publications. Chrissie is currently at work on her fourth book, which is tentatively titled Chasing After Rainbows.
I’ve been writing almost as long as I’ve been reading. Words have always been a comfort and a strength…
Recent Writing
Speedway in Lights
It’s that merry time of year again, and Russ and I decided to make a date to go to the Speedway in Lights after dinner at the Mad Greek (which doesn’t sound like a very happy place, but is quite delicious and has killer calzones). For those of you unfamiliar with...
Write On!
I’m going to be honest: blogging is difficult for me. I’d much rather just do a Facebook post than to write something newsy for my website. And then to try to match it up with a picture just about wears me out, because it has to be a horizontal photograph that seems...
Heroes
This past Saturday, Russ and I started the day early, arriving to our local polling place for early voting around 8:15 a.m. There was already a line and the doors were to open at 9:00 a.m. It had rained earlier, and the sun peeked out from behind the clouds in...