God’s Poetry in a Doll

Granny Leona

You ever have one of those ah-ha moments when you discover something you would never would have had somebody not asked you the right question? I had one of those moments while answering some questions posed to me about my writing. Somebody had asked me something about MOTHER OF RAIN and in answering that question, [...]

Mother Steel & Marlo Thomas

Marlo Thomas

  I worry that we have only changed out addictions. Traded in the packs of smokes for boxes of nicotine gum and increasingly larger doses of morphine that appears to offer very little pain relief. I fight this urge to walk up to completely random people and lecture them about the evils of smoking. I [...]

The Love Plummet

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Editor’s Note: I met Rebekah Sanderlin in North Carolina. A journalist and a military wife, Rebekah and I found we had much in common. The night her daughter Rudy was born, Hurricane Hannah rolled into town. Rebekah called and invited me up, worried that I would need family at such a moment. I didn’ t [...]