As long as guilt and fear hamper us, what weapons do we have to combat cruel and unfair treatment?
Blog Posts on Kentucky
Saving Wolf Pen Mill
Wake up, you well-off widows! We are all part of a world that is threatened by our individual decisions.
Huck and The Daughters
Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, easily his masterpiece, was published eighteen years earlier and would have given the ladies palpitations if they had dared to read it.
Those Soft Kentucky Voices
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.
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.