Tag: Southern

A Tale of Two Birthdays

This is not the birthday I’d planned. Today I reach that age where I could be receiving a government check. Unfortunately, because the government giveth and the government taketh too much away, it’s not practical for me to make that early leap. Yet. I would have given you a different perspective on that back in …

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 Southern by the Grace of God

  “Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” American novelist, short …

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