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July 23, 2012 8

The other day a writer pal of mine tweeted about her fear of writing on controversial topics. I quickly [...]

July 19, 2012 2

When I first learned that Michelle Obama was coming to Birmingham my heart started doing cartwheels in my [...]

June 10, 2012 3

Ten years ago in the newsroom of The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky I met a man who wore a tie to [...]

June 9, 2012 0

What is true beauty? That’s the question I was contemplating while mixing and mingling at Birmingham [...]

June 5, 2012 4

As an English teacher I am constantly reading something whether it’s a student’s poorly written [...]

June 4, 2012 0

I know that summer doesn’t technically start until June 20, but I’m a teacher so for me summer began the [...]

May 2, 2012 2

Although this probably breaks some sort of woman rule, I’m not really a huge Oprah fan. But I did [...]

April 9, 2012 0

Yesterday Edd and I celebrated our sixth anniversary. So much has changed since we said “I do.” 2009 was [...]

April 2, 2012 0

In the second Sex and the City movie, Carrie Bradshaw (who, in case you haven’t been keeping up, [...]

February 15, 2012 5

As some of you know, last week I turned 31 and while it wasn’t as exciting as hitting the big 3-0, I [...]

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