I'm looking back tonight at 2013 with a whole lot of gratitude. It was a year of recovery and resuming, of slowly getting back some stamina and learning how to be healthy again. I could measure recovery with my driving trips. How long could I drive without being worn out? How easily could I carry … Continue reading 2013 Retrospective: My first full post-cancer year
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Middle Georgia Tour: My Flannery O’Connor Pilgrimage to Andalusia
I'll begin this post with an admission. When I was in college in Milledgeville, I thought we mainly studied Flannery O'Connor's work because she was an alumna of the college. I didn't completely realize that she was a significant American writer until I taught English and found her work in every American literature textbook, along … Continue reading Middle Georgia Tour: My Flannery O’Connor Pilgrimage to Andalusia
Going home
I'm aswirl with fullness and memories and emotions and gratitude today. Being back home has been a healing time of friends and family and childhood places and deep familiarity. I'm very tired from activity and interaction. But it's a happy tired, a grateful tired. Today is a slow day before my return to my other … Continue reading Going home
