Lillian’s Face

Lillian was my great-grandmother on my mother’s side.  She moved from Haywood county in the last years of the 19th century and came to live in the mill village where I now live.  She and her husband (but mostly she) ran a little grocery store. As I rewrite...

A Stone, a Leaf, an Unfound Door

Thomas Wolfe is a native son and I have some odd family connections to him and to his family.  His birthday was Friday and I Wolfe-bombed Facebook with many of my favorite quotes.  My favorite book of his is Of Time and The River, possibly because I love the river so...