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Nostalgia
I drove to the Houston area today to attend a writers’ retreat. On the way, I passed the skeleton of an old drive-in movie theater. I remember when I was very small that my family went to the drive-in a … Continue reading
Saturday in April
April is the cruelest month. The weather has been lovely, just perfect for lots of oak pollen to shower down upon Austin. I spend a lot of quality time with a box of kleenex. The really bad thing, I think, … Continue reading
Pardon me, my roots are showing
I grew up on a street named Maiden Lane (no kidding) in Quincy, Illinois. When I was a little girl, we often walked to an ice cream parlor in downtown Quincy, which has now been renamed Uptown Quincy. On our … Continue reading
Rivers: Mississippi and the Nile
The Nile I’ve been rooting around the Coming Forth by Day a.k.a. The Book of the Dead doing research for a scene in my novel that takes place in the Duat (which is Egyptian for Gates, but really means the … Continue reading
