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SEPT 2021
LA TIMES
Op-Ed: My dad coached football for 30 years. His death gives the season a new meaning
Jan 2020
North Carolina Literary review
Missing Ernestine, My Mountain Mother
Jan 2020
Nelle
WILD THINGS
2020
Negative Capability Press
Finding Carson McCullers in China
Presented at John Cabot University. Rome, Italy. 2017
Dec 23, 2018
LA Times
The Christmas Suit
June 9, 2018
LA Times
When every suicide in the news is a reminder of a death your family
April 15, 2018
LA Times
Hard time and soft back books: teaching children's literature in prison
Oct 5, 2016
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Helen Norris
June 5, 2016
LA Times
Legalizing Marijuana is a Hazy Question
Feb 4, 2015
LA Times
Harper Lee's Maycomb: The Thrill is Back
2015
LA Times
Harper Lee's legacy looms large over Watchman
2015
LA Times
Harper Lee's hometown in a frenzy on the eve of Go Set a Watchman
2015
LA Times
When drug addiction conquers
2014
LA Times
Parents, too, could use a break in student loan debt
2012
LA Times
A loving mother's advice: hit the road, son
2011
The Birmingham News
Student Hannah Frey’s Death is a Lesson in Living
2011
A Good Blog is Hard to Find
Tips to Surviving Book Promotion & Storycatching
2010
A Good Blog is Hard to Find
Mr. Negative and the Come-Aparts
2010
A Good Blog is Hard to Find
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & Other Adventures in Reading
Aug 29, 2010
LA Times
Surviving the Recession
Sept 1, 2010
A Good Blog is Hard to Find
My Life in Agents
Aug 29, 2010
Los Angeles Times
Surviving the Recession
July 11, 2010
Los Angeles Times
On the Trail of Harper Lee
July 6, 2010
A Good Blog is Hard to Find
The Christmas of Muscadine Jelly
Jan 2010
A Good Blog is Hard to Find
Rock Bottom
Nov 4, 2009
A Good Blog Is Hard to Find
Rejecting the Rejecter
Nov 1, 2009
LA Times
Off the Shelf: Can I Get a Little Respect Here?
Sept 20, 2009
LA Times
Postcards from
the Recession
June 14, 2009
LA Times
Our Wedding Vow—to My Mother-in-Law
Jan 14, 2009
A Good Blog Is Hard to Find
Five-Hundred Tamales
Dec 25, 2008
LA Times
Bowled Over by Christmas
Sept 24, 2008
A Good Blog Is Hard to Find
Words on Fire
Aug 29, 2008
LA Times
You don't have to own it to make it a home
Aug 28, 2008
Shrinking Violet Promotions
Mountain Moonshine Von Trapp Family Appalachian
Book Tour: Part II
Aug 25, 2008
Shrinking Violet Promotions
Mountain Moonshine Von Trapp Family Appalachian
Book Tour: Part I
Aug 2008
A Good Blog Is Hard to Find
Knoxville to Ningbo: City of New Vigor
June 2008
A Good Blog Is Hard to Find
Rent, Not the Musical
Winter 2008
U of Tenn. Alumnus
A Smoky Mountain Queen
Dec 2007
A Good Blog Is Hard to Find
The Golden Boy from Knoxville
Dec 24, 2007
LA Times
Leaving Santa Behind
July 8, 2007
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Barking Mad
June 3, 2007
Washington Post
Never Mind the Snakeskin, My Boy Got the Sheepskin
Jan 1, 2007
LA Times
I Am Not John Madden's Daughter
July 16, 2006
LA Times
Mom Googled Me, Ooops
June 27, 2006
LA Times
Surviving the Senior
Dec 22, 2005
LA Times
Psychology, Economics
Oct 6, 2005
Los Angeles Weekly
Toys in the Crawlspace
Sept 24, 2005
LA Times
Roadie Mom
Aug 21, 2000
Salon
Death and the Days of Our Lives
April 14, 2000
Salon
Of Football and Flamenco
HOW’S ENGLAND, MISSY?
MARCH 30. 2017
The Belle Letters
Livingston Press
