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I feel a little bad calling this book Religious Chick Lit because I can not tell a lie. I love this book. Like A LOT. and it is very well written and has extremely well developed characters and meaning so it doesn’t deserve the diminutive, but I kept the title anyway because I was hopingContinue reading “Religious Chick Lit”

Today we take a break from reading to get out and move around. Here are some suggestions. I have left off well loved places like Sweetwater because we figured it would be too crowded. Most of these we did on week days to avoid crowds but I will put weekend friendly under the picture ifContinue reading “Socially distanceable hikes, bikes, and swimming holes in the Atlanta area”

I am really interested in genre studies. When I was a middle school English teacher, the text book I used had an excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank as well as a story and a play version of the diary. I was excited about my lesson plans. At the end of it, one ofContinue reading “Three by Ta-Nehisi Coates”

Have you ever hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon? I did it twenty-one years ago, and it is one of the most amazing things I have ever done. The canyon is like this living creature that is completely different on each level that you hike. At the top it looks like this, butContinue reading “Feminism Works”

I taught middle school English for six years, and I am one of those weird people who loved it. I can relate to the extreme age range swings. You can be having a very detailed conversation with a middle schooler one minute about the money he made mowing lawns and what he is going toContinue reading “The Stars Beneath Our Feet”

I have no idea where I got this book from, but it was written six years ago and has probably been on my shelf that long. I had never heard of Barbara Ehrenreich before picking it up, and I was so delighted by her acerbic, voraciously intellectually curious, no- nonsense voice that I thought forContinue reading “If You Catch a Sasquatch, Let Her Go!”

My partner Julie went to the protest in Atlanta on Friday night along with about 5,000 other people to stand up against police killing black people and to remember George Floyd and all the other people who have been murdered by the police. Was I nervous about her going to a large public gathering inContinue reading “The Birth of Black Lives Matter”

I have a Master’s degree in Spanish which means that I studied the literature of Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean in Spanish. I can still remember the mind numbing 500+ authors on my comps reading list and how even memorizing what country they were from was daunting as half of them had lived inContinue reading “You may decide I’m #kissinguptoanass, but let’s talk anyway.”

When I lived in Knoxville twenty years ago, I had a friend who worked at the West End Borders bookstore, and she took me in the staff break room once.  I will never forget it because the staff had covered the walls in hilarious parodies of their customers and customers’ interests.  There was a caricatureContinue reading “Home to Holly Springs”

My mother-in-law gave me this book for Christmas. I really appreciate it that she saw a novel about a lesbian who engages in sex work because it is an only way out of the horrors of a tourist economy in Jamaica, and she doesn’t shy away from it but gets it for me to read.Continue reading “The “Anti-beach” Read”