Hello! How was your Christmas? Ours is a rather low-key celebration of the holiday. Typically, we would hunker down around the fireplace with hot chocolate and old movies, but we haven’t had a fire in the hearth in over two weeks, and it was just too darned hot for hot […]
Source: The Sky and Tomorrow The blog post at the link, above, is about closure; or, more accurately, Robert Barron’s effort to honor an author who inspired him as a young man. I note similarities between this blog post and my research: Barron’s goal was to erect a proper memorial to […]
As promised, an update: I reached out to Katie Wilson Meade’s granddaughter Tuesday morning. She responded within a few hours — positively — and is willing to share information and (get this): Photos! Of! Emmett! Wilson! Photos that (in all probability) are those I have not seen! Maybe he’s smiling […]
As of this afternoon, I was able to take down one of the road map wall hangings. Hooray! Writing progress! My office already looks a little neater, too. I’ve been rather quiet and slow with the posts this month. I’ve directed most of my time and energy to the second […]
I’ve been writing my arse off on Emmett’s second chapter all week. I have a goal to pull down one of the big writing charts that decorate the walls of the writing cave today (Or, tonight, more likely, as I have the usual distractions: Grading a few papers, teaching a […]
While I was in Mississippi last week, I had an experience that seems so typical of the research work on Emmett’s story; i.e., I discovered that Emmett’s uncle lived, literally, down the road from my ancestors in Vicksburg at the turn of the last century. Did they know each other? […]
I let this poor old blog — and Emmett — go for one week, last week, while I was on Thanksgiving break. That’s the longest time I’ve taken off from the research since I started this project over two years ago. This morning, it’s hard getting back into the swing […]
This paragraph didn’t mean much to me when when I first read The Velveteen Rabbit in third grade, in Mrs. Myer’s class, at St. Mary’s elementary school. I remember finding the book in the school library, looking at the cover, thinking how the story was about stuffed animals (which I […]
I’ve been thinking about this article, The Science of Success, from The Atlantic. I came across it earlier this week, quite by accident, while looking for something else related to Emmett’s research. Funny how these things can sidetrack, and yet, offer intriguing new information that helps me understand this man […]
A theatre friend sent this to me today. I say it applies to everything in life worth doing… …especially this damn book.
Tell my story. 