When I think about the profession of fiction writing, I picture a lion tamer surrounded by and trying to control a cage full of big dangerous cats. The lion tamer’s job? Control all of the savage beasts and don’t get…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
TWO WOMEN
C Some conflicts make headlines. Some just lead to change, but always with collateral damage. Libraries seem the least likely of battlegrounds unless you consider the life-changing power of ideas and the life sustaining importance of information. Then the…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: battlegrounds, Boise City, Cimarron County, collateral damage, computers, ideas, information, Kenton, Libraries, library catalog, new vision, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma law, the Digital Age
THE POPPIES
Mrs. Sims’ passing was as unobtrusive as her life, marked only by a small cardboard sign in front of her house, “Auction Friday. 10:00 a.m. Household items.” After living on that corner across from my home for many years, Mrs.…
WHAT AM I DOING HERE?
B Years ago as my step father was sliding into the bizarre horror of Alzeheimer’s, he would sit on the blue couch in the living room and say, over and over again, “What am I doing here?” That puzzled…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Alabama, Alzeheimer's, Civil War, Georgia, GONE WITH THE WIND, librarian, photographer, Rhett, Scarlet