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Fifty Years and Going Strong: A Writer Well Worth Knowing
You won’t find a better journalist, chronicler of the Deep South or all-around fine-principled person than Randall Williams. His new Substack “experiment” is fascinating reading.
2025 GAYA Winner for First Novel: A Book to Savor
The 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Awards were announced today by the Georgia Writers Association (GWA). I couldn’t be more thrilled by at least one of the selections.
Travel Stories Are Grateful Stories
Who doesn’t like stories about the travails of travel? Well, guess what? Our most recent trip to Washington, D.C., didn’t have any. And for that we are immensely grateful.
A Book Chat with Peter Onkonkwo
I spoke with Nigerian writer and poet Peter Okonkwo last month about The Way from Me to Us. He’s a great interviewer! Check out our conversation here.
Our Apostille Adventure: Notes from the Journey Away
When I first heard the word apostille, I thought it was some sort of delicate European pastry. But with our planned move to Portugal, we’ve become intimately acquainted with the term. And have conquered our fear of it.
Hooray for Hitchcock
The movie Hitchcock with Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins is great fun, a well-acted, fictionalized account of the creation of the thriller Psycho. And a trigger for remembrance of things past.
Finding Your Voice: The Church Helped Me Find Mine
It was winter 2009. Not a dark and stormy night, but a bright Saturday morning. At a meeting of the Northeast Georgia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I spoke in favor of allowing openly gay people to hold leadership positions in the church. I was terrified.
A Slippery Slope: The NYT Spelling Bee Game
Wordle? Great. Connections? No problem. Of all the New York Times’ daily puzzles, it’s the Spelling Bee game that threatens to ruin my life.
Seven Things to Love about Alicante
During our weeks in Alicante, Spain, we discovered many simple pleasures … pleasures that we miss now that we’re home. Here is a highly subjective list of the best of the best.
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