Review: The Outsider
I love this story. It is woven into my days as beautifully as Ruth’s life was woven together with Boaz’s.
With all that previous exposure, this retelling is my favorite time reading it yet.
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On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Lo, beyond the River BlappThe Carriage comes, the Carriage blackBy shadowed steed with shadowed tackAnd shadowed driver drivingChild, pray the Maker let you sleepWhen comes the Carriage down your streetLest all your dreams be dreams of teethAnd Carriages arrivingTo wrest you from your berth and bowerIn deepest night and darkest hourAcross the sea to frozen towerWhere Gnag the Nameless pounds youIn Castle Throg across…
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In Praise of Family Stock Stories
You or some part of your family live out some cliché. Mine is the Appalachia-holler one. My grandfather was one of twelve kids growing up in Burrell Holler, NC, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His momma made legendary biscuits and pork gravy, and his feisty father nicknamed him “cat”. He left home as a teenager…
