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Disrupted

Well, here we are. Before the lockdown, before the run on toilet paper and the masks and the talk of flattening curves, my husband was pr...

It's Finally Happening!

That headline might feel a bit hyperbolic to you. So let's back up a space. We moved into this house in 2014. For six years I have lived w...

Ranch Dressing

I'm not sure why I like the show The Ranch. I just do. We all have things like that in our life, don't we? Things that have no redeeming ...

The Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire has its origins as a parlor game popularized (although not created) by Marcel Proust. The French essayist and no...

Connecting

Last fall I had my 35th high school reunion. I can't remember if I wrote about it here? My co-chair and I dressed up as Tina Turner and M...

So Many Nights

I don't even know how to start this post except just to go ahead and drop it on you: One day this week I listened to Debbie Boone's album...

Act Six

Scene: Sound & Fury bookstore, before dawn. Menetre is making cinnamon rolls. Harper sits on a stool observing, drinking coffee. MENETRE:...

Act Five

Scene: Will's law office. Amy Ray is at the reception desk. Enter Harper. HARPER: Hey, Amy Ray. Is Will in? AMY RAY: Yes ma'am. He's expe...

Act Four

Scene: The book store. Harper is putting new books on display around a table Christmas tree. Menetre is baking behind the coffee shop cou...

Act Three

Scene: Black Friday evening. Harper and Alex are wrapping gifts in Menetre's home. ALEX: So what is this thing tonight? HARPER: It's the ...

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I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.

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