Writing Life Stories

In my ideal world, everyone would read poetry and everyone would write poetry, and as a result, we would all be more sensitive, tho...

Today is the day of the funeral service for my dear friend, Estelle. I will share two poems she wrote in honor of her grandchild who died to...

You have seen my posts regarding Scott Owens, an excellent poet, from Hickory, NC. I was delighted to receive a link to a podcast in which ...

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...

September means football season, or did, at our house. From the time I married Barry Beall, I knew that Saturday afternoons in the fall mean...

This past week has been a sad one for me because I have heard bad news from several sources. One of my dearest friends has been...

I came to live in western NC in 1995 because my husband and I had always wanted to live in the mountains and near a body of water. Clay Cou...

I have certain blogs I visit on a regular basis. One of them is  https://writingthroughcancer.com/ Writing Through Cancer.  One mi...

Few people in the rest of North Carolina know that in our far west region we have a writers' colony. Each month writers gather in Murphy...

Weather in western North Carolina has been unusual this winter. Warm temperatures, seventies, in December and January reminded me of winters...

Delightful writer, Dana Wildsmith from Bethlehem, Georgia loves to sing as well as she loves to write. See her on this video.  ht...

I heard from Jayne Ferrer today. On www.YourDailyPoem.com , to celebrate her first five years of the online poetry magazine, she is posting...

It seems we are all using these cold days of winter to go through and discard as much as we can live without. I am no exception. I worked...

I learned of a poet named Jane Kenyon when I first came to the mountains and began studying poetry with Nancy Simpson . I don’t remember ...

I don't often seek out guest posting opportunities, but recently Robert Lee Brewer,   Senior Content Editor, Writer's Digest Communi...

I finished my August class at Tri-County Community College last night. This was one of those groups of people who seemed to bond right away....

Did you ever go to visit relatives you didn't know? When you were a kid, did your parents tell you to play with children you ha...