Red Room Where the Writers Are

I've just posted a blog at A GOOD BLOG IS HARD TO FIND about my mother's near-insane kinship with the mother of William Faulkner -- whom she's never met.
 
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My daughter will graduate from high school next year.  She's determined to go away to college.  I have two kids, and she's the younger.   So, I will be alone in less than a year.  I hadn't rea

Yesterday my mother sold two of my books!

We women who came of age during the Black Power Movement, the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and yes the Feminist Movement continue to move in a circle that is, almost always, far diff

The day after his

This was the first Mother’s Day where I have actually had my significant other plan festivities for the day. 

For many years, Mother's Day was one horrible day.  I couldn't wait until it was over.  I used to feel that way about Valentine's Day and Father's Day.  Now I had Mother's Day to add to the collect