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...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Nov 13, 2018 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File November 2018 Essay: “Good Grief” GOOD GRIEF I don’t grieve easily. When I come across reports of mass shootings or inhumane treatment of immigrants, women, children, other-gendered or sexually oriented persons, African Americans, Muslims,...
by Carol Morrison | Oct 22, 2018 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File October 2018 Essay: “Boo!” BOO! “Vestal virgins must be accompanied by knights or clergy, or come at their own risk,” the Halloween party invitation said. Ed and I lived in Jackson, Mississippi then, and had been a couple for about a year. We...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Sep 25, 2018 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File September 2018 Essay: “See You In September” SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER I saw on Facebook that the date was September 11th, and recognized, with the surprise of one for whom time moves with distressing haste, that seventeen years have passed since...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Aug 23, 2018 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File August 2018 Essay: “The Little Things” THE LITTLE THINGS We met up with our old friends Linda and Jack the other day, a couple we hadn’t seen for six years. They moved to the area to be close to their children and grandchildren, since Jack...
