At 25 years of age, I didn’t know what to make of the eerie feeling that Mama, who had passed only two weeks earlier, was “hanging”...

Recently, I had a virtual, heart-to-heart conversation with my dear and long-time friend Sue Monk Kidd. When I learned almost 900 people...

Flood tides are small epiphanies, treasured moments of well-being that swell the heart with love and gratitude. The release of my new...

Shifting Shorelines

My book Shifting Shorelines is a culmination of hours spent beside the sea listening to my greatest teacher, Mother Nature. She is both...

1. In your book Shifting Shorelines, you never name the Florida barrier island where you live. Why? I purposely never named the island...

More than a year of masks, social distancing, and refraining from friendly hugs and handshakes has left me hungry for face-to-face...

ELLE MAGAZINE’S 2012 GRAND PRIX NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Moonlight on Linoleum was chosen as ELLE Magazine’s 2012 Grand Prix...

My sisters and I wearing our Comeback Tour T-shirts: Patricia, Brenda, Joni (holding “flat” Vicki), Terry, and Nancy As research for...

This article is not a treatise on writing memoir; it is, rather, a compilation of my thoughts and the creative process I drew upon to...

1. Are you and your sisters close as adults? I hesitate to speak collectively for my sisters, since we are very different people, but I...