by Carol Jane Morrison | Feb 19, 2019 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File February 2019 Essay: “Snowfree” SNOWFREE “Snowpocalypse”, or “Snowmaggedon”, which blasted us with over two feet of the white stuff and some serious wind, is about over. I was mostly snowbound for a week. Except I didn’t feel bound at all....
by Carol Jane Morrison | Feb 19, 2019 | Book Reviews
“Gently Scattered Intentions” by Laurie Parker Laurie Parker calls herself “Mississippi Writer Laurie Parker”. No way could I not buy and read a book by a woman, who, though I know from our Facebook association, is twenty years younger than I, has lived in...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 16, 2019 | Book Reviews
“The Woman Next Door” by Yewande Nomotoso I like the premise of this book. Two women in their eighties, one black, one white, live next door to each other in Katterjin, an upscale community in modern day South Africa. Hortensia, who is black, despises...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 15, 2019 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File January 2019 Essay: “The Present” THE PRESENT A few mornings ago, I was eating my avocado toast, with two of Ed’s perfectly fried eggs on top, thoughts darting through my mind like gnats—the pozole I’ll make this afternoon, the onions...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Dec 24, 2018 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File December 2018 Essay: “Keep Hope” KEEP HOPE I hear the word “Hope” more than usual these days. It sounds ethereal, wispy, like Emily Dickinson’s “thing with feathers”, yet we are directed to keep it, to spread it to others, to make sure it...
