Last Sunday, I spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock on the topic of hope. I had been scheduled to speak there and on that same topic the Sunday after the tornado came through. We put it off and instead, that day, I got to help them deliver meals to tornado victims. This day it fell on the eve of the deadline for gathering signatures for the petition against LEARNS.
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I wrote earlier about our spring break trip to Costa Rica. What I didn t say was why Costa Rica. There s a good reason besides ethereal beauty and epic adventure. His name is Hudson.
I met Nate Coulter a few years ago when a friend introduced us. And as soon as I met him, I wished I had known him my whole life. He s one of those people you d never want to miss out on an Arkansas diamond.
I was out of town on a recent Tuesday, keeping up with the Conway School Board election results via Twitter. I said goodnight to my family at the normal time without mentioning it; they can only bear so much of my obsession with politics. I had only vaguely discussed the months-long dumpster fire as it burned in Conway with my husband, and didn t expect him to remember.
I teach college English and recently finished up the spring semester. In Comp 1, our grand finale is a research paper. It must be four pages, and the students do tons of research and take a stand on an issue of importance to them.
The greatest joy of writing this column is also the one I least anticipated when it started: interaction with readers. It has become a ritual I look forward to every Sunday. Like a child on Christmas morning, I like to wake up early to open the paper, see what the words look like on the page, and read how the editor decided to title it. It always feels like a miracle.
I first ran into the term "platform" several years ago when I wrote a book. An agent asked me what I thought mine was, and when I said I had no idea, he explained that it s the number of people in my audience.