What are you working on next? is a question that always takes me by surprise (which is why it’s good advice for writers to have an answer prepared). Words gurgle in my throat. If I can’t change the subject, I … Continue reading
Today’s guest post is by Louisiana writer Darrelyn Saloom. Read more of her posts here. On a brisk, clear morning in Baton Rouge, I lay in a Hilton hotel bed and watched tiny tugboats push huge barges up the muddy … Continue reading
Today’s guest post is by the lovely Darrelyn Saloom. Read her previous guest posts, or follow her on Twitter. The cat wakes me at six in the morning. She wants to go outside before the sun rises. I don’t want … Continue reading
Before the kidnapping, I lived with my father and two older sisters in Austin, Texas. In second grade—1963—Daddy longed to enroll me in an art program at a progressive academy because I covered our walls with words and drawings of … Continue reading