Our Idols are Human Too
March 4, 2014Read moreI never imagined wanting to come to John Travolta’s defense. But amidst all the post-Oscar Travolfrenzy about his on-stage butchering of Idina Menzel’s name, I’d like to weigh in. Sure, I typed my name...
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Going for the Gold
February 10, 2014Read moreMy friend Julie posted her goal of someday working on the Olympics on Facebook the other day. It’s a great goal—and one I am sure she’ll accomplish. A young...
White Rose Love
January 14, 2014Read moreMy time at Wake Forest was transformational. In four short years, I learned how to balance a checkbook, footnote a term paper and get out of bed for a...
When The End is Only the Beginning
July 10, 2013Read moreI did it. I typed The End after I wrote the final sentence of my book a few weeks before I left Costa Rica. I think writer protocol says you are...
Knowing the Questions but Not All the Answers
May 19, 2013Read moreI moved to Costa Rica to write the book that’s been roiling around in my head for nearly 15 years. I first thought of it in 1999 when, at...
"Ah, the memories of cotton candy trees on the old plantation heavy with their ripened fruit..."