by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 16, 2018 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File January 2018 Essay: “Shoot, I Reckon” SHOOT, I RECKON My eleven year old grandson, Dylan, does not like me to cuss. He’s a sensitive boy who’s been told that swearing is wrong, and he likes to do things right. I’m a potty mouth...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Dec 18, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File December 2017 Essay: “Thank You” THANK YOU I don’t remember exactly why Ed and I met with a marriage counselor thirty years ago. We were probably upsetting each other in the same ways we still can, but hadn’t yet learned to repair. I...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Nov 13, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File November 2017 Essay: “The Center That Holds” THE CENTER THAT HOLDS I recently watched a documentary on prolific author Joan Didion, titled “The Center Will Not Hold”. I first imagined a piece of cheese toast, soft and falling apart in the middle....
by Carol Jane Morrison | Oct 24, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File October 2017 Essay: “The Tingler” THE TINGLER October and pumpkins on porches and cottony ghosts wisping from trees and the Facebook post, “What movie terrified you as a child?” I didn’t have to think. No contest: The Tingler. I was...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Sep 18, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File September 2017 Essay: “Shattered” SHATTERED When I tell people that, for six years in the eighties, I taught psychology at an historically black college near Jackson, Mississippi, they often say, “So you got to feel what it’s like to be a...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Aug 17, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File August 2017 Essay: “Let Us Be True” LET US BE TRUE I used to wonder, reading a novel about Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia, how oppressed and threatened people managed to carry on in a constant state of fear. When I saw them going through...
