Find Your True Power on the Yellow Brick Road Alcoholics Anonymous is a well documented program that has restored hope for millions by changing their lives. True rags to riches stories abound in the original 12-steps’ programs. Why should the “Anonymous people” have the corner on life-changing miracles? Most recoveringContinue Reading
Written by Elise and Phil Okrend preview by Kathleen Colburn “People are pulled to places. Sometimes they don’t know why. They just listen to the call.” Elise and Phil Okrend have found home in Asheville. Elise’s art is at home here and things have fallen into place in many ways.Continue Reading
Discover the History of Asheville’s Albemarle Park by Erin Owens New to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Asheville’s Albemarle Park. The book, written by local authors Stacy A. Merten and Robert O. Sauer, contains 200 vintage images and text that capture the community’s history. Albemarle Park wasContinue Reading
Two Novelists: Elizabeth Gilbert & Jeannette Walls Malaprop’s bookstore will present two ticketed events this month. Catch Jeannette Walls for a discussion and signing of The Silver Star on June 6, and Elizabeth Gilbert for a discussion and signing of The Signature of All Things on June 27. Jeannette Walls:Continue Reading
Love & War Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home review by Marcianne Miller After more than a quarter century of living together, my ex-husband decided he wanted a divorce because my vote for Barack Obama proved that I was “un-American.” People invariably laugh when I relateContinue Reading
reviews by Marcianne Miller An Anthology of Writings on Priestesses I was an extremely religious child. I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up — a priest. I would wear lacy vestments in season-matched colors and convert entire villages of pagans, whatever they were. I knewContinue Reading
1st Place: “Taking Issue with Kahlil Gibran” by Lenore Coberly 2nd Place: “Olympic Peninsula” by James Davis 3rd Place: “Warm Afternoon at Jeff’s” by Connor Vine Honorable Mention: “A Wink to Byron Katie” by Janice Sutton Honorable Mention: “Trip Taking” by William W. Cobbs II Honorable mention A Wink toContinue Reading
SCRUPULOSITY I look around me At the ruins of my room The jumbled piles of projects Still half-done The dregs of documents picked up While I was on the run Could I resurrect them now? The desiccated bones Of where I’ve been All unnerve me with their watchful eyes TheyContinue Reading
Enough She dreamed Of the day she would have Enough courage To drop her idea Of the way it Should be. Then, she would step Into the wild pool And bathe into the Joy that only This letting go Could bring. When her heart asked her, “When will this be?”Continue Reading
