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  • I am from Montana, a geological and linguistic neighbor to South Dakota. Everything you have written here resonates with my heart. I have always had an intense interes...
  • I write very short hybrid stories/poem so I really have to have a good first line. I  find that since my pieces are short the last line is also important. Here are a c...
  • Kelley, you capture so well the healing that writing through loss can be---along with... One Bowl, dealing with that loss.  [http://issuu.com/echapbooks/docs/one_bowl?mode=embed&layout=http://www.s...
  • Iadvise doing what my English teacher at Pearl High in Nashville did.  When she was confronted with the blacklisting of "Huckleberry Finn", she simply chose an obscure...
  • About a year ago, I became a fairly serious travel blogger. I was a college history major. Every time I visit somewhere new, it triggers a desire to understand the his...
  • Kevin Camp commented on her article Dry Drunk, Part 2
    It's interesting how you describe Canadian publication. In some ways, it's similar to where I grew up, the American South. Southern literature has used the same tropes...
  • The introduction by Archbishop Desmond Tutu prompted me to buy this book: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King Jr. from Wild Dog Press.  I liked the idea of...
  • Susan, I have also written a memoir of my two years in South Korea, currently titled: Korea, Are You at Peace?  If I manage to get it published, would you be willing to look at it and do a blurb? Thanks for considering this request.
  • Great post!  As a journalist, I totally agree with your South African friend:  If one obvious detail is wrong, what other information might the storyteller be playing...
  • I remember hearing Thembi's story on NPR. My ears perked up at first because my dog is named Thembi (which means 'trusted' in Zulu; my husband is South African, hence the Zulu name) but the young woman's courage and clarity kept me listening. Thanks for the reminder and bringing us her story.