This devotional is designed to be a polishing cloth for the haze that is sometimes cast over the heart. It is a forty-day journey to rediscovering, reconnecting and reviving the brilliance of God’s light in your life. Enjoy a dose of daily glow with uniquely crafted meditations designed to help […]
7 Women, 7 Words
With only a word count as direction, 7 women wrote personal essays on a group of words: HER, SHOES, IMAGE, ANGER, HIM, HELP, SEXY. Each word represents a colorful thread, each essay an intricate fabric. A beautiful quilt unfolds, depicting episodes from each author’s life. The collection covers how women […]
The Church Chronicles of Iris and Locke
The Church Chronicles of Iris and Locke is a rollicking collection of novellas written in collaboration with Dr. Cicely T. Wilson. We use the pennames Hazel Lindey (Cicely) and Rosee Garfield (DiAnne). The writing is full of hilarity, speculation, and inspiration from our experiences in living in small towns and […]
Home Training
The following is excerpted from a creative nonfiction piece published in the October 2019 online issue of Atlas and Alice. The work reflects on my second visit to the LeNoir plantation home. I and several of my cousins did a photo shoot at the plantation to chronicle the visit. You […]
Take Somebody With You
I was curious about my tears, the ones that wouldn’t come the first time I visited the place. I thought that once all of our hormones got dumped into the SUV together, there would be salt-water soup. Not fully the case. There was a thickness in the air; it would violate the intimacy of the visit to say who said what. I’m sorry, the tea won’t be served on this post. It’s disrespectful, and little bit too fresh. This is not to say there is no tea. Too soon; too fresh.