One Thousand Gifts…& Counting
For years I'd filled The Happy Book with hundreds of entries, but as I grew older and the spin-top of my existence began to whirl, this routine was flung into the abyss of too much to do and not enough
Sweat-Soaked Surrender
In the hundred days since my daughter’s birth, there have been times when the sleep snatched from her perpetually hungry lips is not enough, making it a struggle to apply the balm of her smiles to my exhaustion and not
Nothing Like a Mother’s Love
Two nights ago, after nursing my child into a milk coma, I pulled on my thickest socks and softest pajamas, smeared my swollen neck with Vicks VapoRub, and the smell of camphor brought tears to my post-birth eyes. Six weeks
Between Art & Love
I took a literature class in college overseen by a wonderfully eccentric professor with a puffed black bun and a coffee cup coordinating with her rhinestone spectacles who believed that diverging from the syllabus but remaining on topic with what it
The Softening Lens of Hindsight
Hindsight’s supposedly 20/20, but the lens of time only softens the jagged edges of my memories, saturating gray moments and placing them in Technicolor light. Last week, for instance, I strolled through the aisles of my husband and my outlet grocery
The Date Night Disaster
All week long I cling to the promise of date night, which gives my husband and me a chance to flirt and laugh like our love is just beginning and not like, in six hours, we will be getting up with our
Smorgasbord Mommy
Before my daughter’s birth, I was determined never to become that mom. You know, the one who forces neighbors within a twenty-mile radius to keep the pediatrician’s number on speed dial and who requires a second medical opinion when defining
Stargazing
Sitting up at night with my infant child, my feet rocking the glider on their own, plots begin to stir and thicken as characters bob to the surface in the sleepy cauldron of my mind. Tomorrow, I think, swaddling my
Winner of Book Giveaway Announced!
Congratulations to Tina Lassister from Tennessee whose name was drawn for Julie Cantrell's NYT and USA Today Bestselling debut novel, Into the Free! Just Facebook your address to me, Tina, and this wonderful book will be on its way! Thanks to everyone who participated; I hope
Interview with Julie Cantrell, NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author of INTO THE FREE
"A beautiful and literary coming-of-age romance that is as close to perfect as I've seen in quite some time." ~Serena Chase, USA TODAYBook Description:Just a girl. The only one strong enough to break the cycle.In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs