HeyJaredMonica's Musings
I write about southern literature and culture, music, and living a feminist life in the American South today. I write about my work in progress--both academic and otherwise--as well as reflections on what's going on in my life--also academic and otherwise
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Memories that have arisen tonight, thinking about our loss of Dolly (opens the original)
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This evening, I attended a live-streamed writing workshop and reading hosted by Bigfoot Books & Brews for Diane Zinna’s new book Letting Grief Speak. The event had already been scheduled before the news about the loss of Dolly Parton yesterday; they decided to go forward with the event and include space for those who wanted to write about the loss of Dolly. I started writing this in response to a prompt that Diane gave us, and I’ve spent the rest of t
Some thoughts while paging through the Food Issue of the Oxford American (opens the original)
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I’ve lived so many places: Ohio, Georgia, California, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana. The one constant home I’ve had for over fifty years now has been having family in the mountains of western North Carolina: Haywood County, Clyde, Canton, White Oak. These place names are a litany for me, evoking so many memories that could fill a textbook on Appalachian Studies.Sort of. I remember Mamaw cooking breakfast on a wood-burning stove in their house at White Oak. Later in the day, Papaw shared a can of V
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