memoir

  • Twelve Thoughts on a Tuesday

    I forgive you. Please forgive me, too. I am trying to grow up.

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  • Bathrooms Where I Have Cried

    I recently found some personal journals. They took me back to places I needed to go; to places that weren’t completely comfortable to visit but enlightening nonetheless. Two years ago, I left my twelve year, international marriage to a United Nations diplomat from Afghanistan. (I say international because we lived in various countries and dealt

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  • Memoir On My Mind

    I am honored to be one of the top three “winners” of my local O.Henry Magazine’s first memoir competition. The story is a reflection of my rural Southern upbringing and how one event altered the course of my life. I entered the contest on a whim; this was my first time experimenting with a Southern

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  • A Year Out

    I left my marriage a year ago this month. I thought I ‘d have everything figured out by now. Yet here I am, having to discard what I thought I knew about myself. It is funny who notices what a year can do. For example, my 10-year-old son made a comment in the car on

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