We stopped yesterday in the middle of my class on writing memoir to listen to the verdict in Minneapolis that will send the policeman who murdered George Floyd to jail on all three counts.
Blog Posts on Kentucky
Goodbye and Hello
The degree of change that has transpired since the long overdue advent of Black Lives Matter and the murder of Breonna Taylor in Louisville last spring is summed up for me in a Community Forum essay by columnist Quintez Brown.
Groundhog Pâté
I might have forgotten Groundhog Day entirely except for a box that’s just arrived from my dear friend, Wren Smith, in Kentucky.
Wolf Pen and the World
We never escape our past or our responsibility for our past, as we never escape the future we have agreed to create.
Heroes in Breeches
I didn’t think the horseback-riding British midwives I worked for years ago in the Kentucky mountains were heroes.
In A Dark Time
How ironic and, yet, how strangely fitting, that this flying virus arrives at the middle of Women’s History month and just before the April 7 publication of The Silver Swan…
When a Great Woman Dies
When a great woman dies, we need to think about her again and again.
Sometimes It Takes a While
Several decades ago, I became aware of the work and life of Enid Yandell, a Kentucky-born, Paris educated sculptor whose statues I used to see at various ceremonial points in
W.O.W.
I immediately recognized the originality and daring of a kindred spirit.
18 Favorites of 2018
I’ve once again chosen my most popular posts of 2018, based on visits, comments, Tweets and Facebook likes.