January 4, 2020

Hope your new year is as happy as my time in Newport was.

Kids, chihuahuas, and spirits. What more do you need?

Not quite February 14, 2019

The magic of threes is a real thing.

And I (along with my two best friends) experienced it in Paragould.

January 2, 2019

An unexpected hit! The number of shares this article received on Facebook is almost as high as the number of fried pie varieties available for consumption in Camden, Arkansas. 

October 29, 2018

Sometimes a town never leaves you, even when you've left it.

Winslow, Arkansas

September 13, 2018

 (Pageants challenged me in a way I'd never experienced. But is my five-year-old daughter ready for the same?

Preschooler in pageants: A Tale of Conflicted Parenting (otherwise known as Lady In Waiting)

June 1, 2018

Hardy, Arkansas: Where you, too, might be able to get along with your fourteen-year-old for the day.

Fingers crossed for you.

April 25, 2018

Take the last train to Clarksville.

Or drive.

Just get there. You need to go.

March 2, 2018

I love a parade.

No, wait. I love live theatre.

Yeah. That's it. The play's the thing.

February 1, 2018

Y'all, teaching can be one of the most rewarding things ever. High schoolers are just freakin' cool. And sometimes, when you're looking for some amazing art that represents the whole you, one of those high schoolers comes through like gangbusters.

Thanks, Cole Owens, for being the coolest of the cool.

December 18, 2017

Sometimes I write poetry.
Sometimes it's not terrible.
And sometimes--very rarely--it gets published.

You can read "Nos for the Proper Modern Southern Girl" by clicking this link and you can read "At Liberty" if you order one of these awesome issues of Poetry South.

December 12, 2017

"I HAVE a slight toothache. I need to go to the bathroom. I'm at the edge of a headache. I'm tired from working 40-plus hours this week and taking care of a husband and three kids and finishing up my novel, and gosh darn it if my middle child didn't bring home a stray dog two days ago."

I was worried the first lines about my trip to Searcy would put off my editors.

I underestimated their fortitude.

December 7, 2017

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​I ran a nonprofit theatre for seven years. Was what I thought I would do for my whole life, til it wasn't.

​Arkansas Times must love me because they now let me review theatre every once in a while.

​And this time? A play based on the O. Henry classic, "The Gift of the Magi." Theatre + literature? Yes, please.

November 29, 2017

I'm tired. But I'm pretty much always tired. So whatever.

My writing partner, Monica Clark-Robinson, and I finished the first draft of our Young Adult Dystopian novel this week. When's it gonna come out for you to buy? 

From your mouth to God's ears.

​I'll keep you posted.
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