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...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jul 18, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File July 2017 Essay: “Let Freedom Ring” LET FREEDOM RING I don’t know exactly when I began flinching at the sight of an American flag. I know it’s been since last November’s election, as I’ve watched civil rights crushed and...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jun 16, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File June 2017 Essay: “Bustin’ Out” BUSTIN’ OUT Dogwoods are blooming among the cedars and alders and cottonwoods across our river. Rhodys sport clusters big as cabbages. Buds on our rosebushes are fat, about to pop. They’re doing...
