20 Favorites of 2021
After this turbulent, difficult but ultimately enlightening year, I’m sending you my favorite posts.
This is my New Year’s gift to you, my devoted readers. — Sallie
My Grandmother Is Turning in Her Grave
My beloved grandmother could never have imagined that the enormous statue towering over her hometown would be pulled down, carved up and crated off to an uncertain future as it was a week ago.
Choice
No one in her right mind is “pro-abortion.” I know from personal experience what a difficult decision this is.
Two Women: Margaret and Doris
I’ve come to believe over the years that there is a core similarity that connects the lives of all women. I think it is our ability to adapt.
Why I Believe
I have no other way to accept—or begin to accept—the tragedies over four generations that have engulfed my birth family.
The Abandoned
An indication of the “treatment” they were given is shown in Lundy’s sketches of the medicine bottles she found: mercury cyanide, mercury chloride and tincture of belladonna (deadly nightshade.) The sketches are burnt into paper with a soldering iron.
Little Brother Comes Home
Jonathan will be back in the place he loved best, and the only place he ever felt he really belonged.
This Is the Hour of Lead
I think in fact there is no forgetting, but a different kind of remembering that goes on all the time in a deep, hidden layer…
A Page a Day
On a recent trip home to Kentucky, I came across a small worn black journal called “A Page A Day.”
The Silver Swan Sails Again
Due to the generosity of a store here in Santa Fe called Travel Bug, I was able to give a reading from the biography a few days ago to a large and appreciative crowd.
Mary’s Birthday
No, not that Mary, who was busy having a baby, but my mother, Mary Caperton Bingham.