Butterflies congregating in my stomach. Yikes! A new project looms! God, please give me the strength, the energy, the heart and the brains to do a better-than-good job! Thank You!! Taking the train to Kansas City, the University of Missouri, to begin writing/work on a...
Whisper winter’s silence all still but the empty cold waves enticing me to roll along the tumbling shore. Shadows of a rusty kneed laughing boy who has long since relinquished his dreams of summer joy. I stand where he played. As close as my feet shoed, stockinged...
The alumna’s early involvement in the civil rights movement in the South led to a long career as an actress and eventually a writer. The 10th anniversary edition of her civil rights novel Freshwater Road comes out in April. By Laura Paisley – March 25, 2016...
A college student from Michigan finds her calling and her voice during the Mississippi Summer Project. Part 3 – New Orleans Gil Moses and John O’Neal decided that Mississippi was so hard, so harsh and unrelenting that we would probably do better basing the...
A college student from Michigan finds her calling and her voice during the Mississippi Summer Project. Part 2 – Mississippi Spirit The Free Southern Theater was in the beginning stages when I arrived in Jackson. We were operating out of Tougaloo College and the...
