Writing Life Stories

As fall approaches, this poem comes to mind. It is in my poetry book and was published on Your Daily Poem.  While I Waited, Life Ha...

I was very pleased when Marcia Barnes wrote this review of my poetry book, Now Might as Well be Then. It is published in our hometown newspa...

Recently  while reading some of my poetry at the tour of gardens in Hayesville, I was asked to read this poem from my book, Now Might as Wel...

I am so happy to be affiliated with City Lights Books in Sylva, NC. This is one of the best Independent book stores anywhere. Chris Wilcox...

We have a great time at Writers Night Out in Young Harris, GA on the second Friday of each month. Karen Holmes hosts this event and has be...

May, 2007 - I began this blog. More than 50,000 page views later, I am still here. I learned about blogging for the first time at a North C...

I can’t decide what to call this – Pumpkin Season or Winter Surprise or Festival Fun. This weekend the weather changed drastically from mi...

Singing in My Memories Music was born in me, in my mother, in my sisters and my brothers. We sang in the barn and on the farm, and in the co...

If you are in the neighborhood, please come to John Campbell Folk School on Thursday, November, 18, the Keith House - where Jennifer McGaha...

Pam, a reader who purchased Now Might As Well Be Then said : I just want to let you know that I have read your book from cover to cover sev...

Phillips and Lloyd books on the square in Hayesville, NC hosted a book signing last Saturday. The light snow in the morning did not deter...

Recently I acquired a copy of Celia Miles and Nancy Dillingham's new anthology, Clothes Lines, a book filled with stories and poems abou...

My Father's Horse  by Glenda Council Beall Stickers tear my legs, bare and tan  from summer sun. Long black braids  fly behind me as I s...

Ballet in the Piney Woods Little girl sunsuits littered the wiregrass. Summer warmed small bronze bodies that danced on the stage of a falle...

This photo taken in Blowing Rock NC I have set up another blog about my writing and will keep this one for family history and genealogy. Th...

Blue Moon Every Twenty Years for Barry Blue Moon was not my favorite song until the night you sang to me, the night before our wedding day i...