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Blog: Shrinking Violet Promotions (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The P-Nut Man usually sits on the side of the road all day selling peanuts, but at the time of this photo, he was inside the Waffle House eating pecan pie. (And, um, I'm thinking maybe he's due for some new tires.)
Okay - that's it. I head back up to New England tomorrow.
Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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My dad was the biggest dog lover on the face of the earth. The day he died he had nine dogs. I'm sure he wished he had nine more.
When I was a child, there was an Air Force base near my home. It closed years and years ago - but much of the ruins of it are still there, particularly the runways.
They are all overgrown and lonely. When my son was 9 or 10, my dad and I used to let him drive the car on them. He would drive and drive and my dad would sit in the back
seat so happy. (I know....I know.... irresponsible parenting. Please don't call DSS - it was a long time ago.)
My dad owned Syberian huskies with lots of energy. He used to take them there and let them run and run and run beside his van as he drove up and down the runways. It was one of his favorite things to do.
Before he died, he requested that he be cremated and that his ashes be strewn out there by those runways.
So that's what we did.
Once a year, I go back and visit. It's very, very quiet there. The kind of quiet that engulfs you. It's also very peaceful there.
The first year after he died (six years ago), I went to "visit" him. We had a little "chat" - and then I looked down, and there, embedded in the runway were.....
Dog prints!!
I swear they weren't there before that.
Today - I went there again. When I was walking back to my car, I noticed something beside my car.
It was a dog!
Now, trust me when I tell you that this place is far from anything. Anything. I scrambled to take a photo but you can barely see him. That little black dot of a thing just to the right of the car is a dog.
When I got back to the car, I followed him. He ran a long way. He was a very confident, I-know-where-I'm-going-and-what-I'm-doing-so-leave-me-alone kind of dog. He got as far as a private aviation center of some kind that is out there at that old Air Force base, but I couldn't get close enough to him to say hello.
Just one of those life-is-funny kind of experiences, you know?
Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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You know how I was talking about that red dirt road and all (a couple of posts below)?
Well, tonight was a beautiful hot summer night and I was driving around blasting country western music on the radio - gettin' my groove on and all.....and guess what song came on?
Red Dirt Road by Brooks and Dunn.
Now, I don't know if you're into country music at all - but the lyrics go like this:
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car:
I tore it all to pieces....
I come to know,
There's life at both ends,
Of that red dirt road.
So take THAT, copyeditors.....
Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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My Smoky Mountain soul sister friend, Kerry Madden, has a way cool collection of sayings that she saw on church signs down South. So I've been thinking about her whenever I see them - which means I'm thinking about her a lot because those signs are everywhere.
Here is one I saw today. I like it! (The problem is, how to do you STOP worrying?)
Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I recently had to do some copyedits on Greetings from Nowhere (Spring 08) that involved cutting out a reference to "red dirt" - because I had used that reference a few times and enough is enough with the red dirt.
But today I was driving around (in South Carolina) - and was struck by how much RED DIRT there is. And, it really is red (well, okay, maybe more orange, but...anyway).
See? I took that photo today. Red dirt.
I have very vivid memories of red dirt.
Red dirt roads.
Red dirt yards.
Red dirt driveways.
The bottom of my feet stained orange (red) from that red dirt in the summer.
Etc.
So, I just can't help myself.
Thank goodness for copyeditors.
Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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....today for lunch I had a HOMEMADE pimiento cheese sandwich (thank you, Aunt Margaret) and sweet tea (thank you, Cousin Libby).
Blog: Barbara O'Connor (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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What a great story. I would love to hear her speak. It's great to know she's one of us! (And it's interesting that recently I've been hearing about more and more people who have an aversion to the telephone. For a long time I thought I was the only one.)
I know a great bookmark/postcard vendor. We've had some jobs printed at Tu-vets and they do an outstanding job at a reasonable price:
http://www.tu-vets.com/
Hi, Sheila,
Thanks so much for the lead about tu-vets. I will definitely check it out?
Oh, yeah, if you EVER get a chance to hear Nancy Pearl speak, RUN, don't walk. :-)
You can add me to the list of people that go way, way "shrinky" about the phone. Eeeek!
Funny, huh?
Mary Hershey
Very cool story about Nancy Pearl, Mary. I think you gave me a copy of her BOOK LUST a birthday or two ago. I use it all the time. (It's a book journal, for those of you who aren't familiar with it.)
How fun to hear her talk. An introvert who creates her own action figure--I love that.
I read your list of to-dos at the end of the post. I think, for a tie-in, you guys need a tiny, rag doll version of Miss Viola. Think a miniature Raggedy Ann in red leather & lipstick.
Shrinking Violets action figures should probably come with hand-held fan (to hide the face), dark glasses, etc. And a writer's retreat cabin to rival anything Barbie ever had.
I'm laughing about the writer's retreat cabin, LA! Love it!
And, Becky, great idea about a Ms. Viola doll! Why didn't we think of that before? :-)
Robin, the Book Lust I gave you was the journal-- not the book that has all her reviews. I've ordered her books and will share them with you when they come in. Can't wait to see Book Crush.
Thanks for all your comments, everyone--
Mary
Great Nancy Pearl story! Another printer I've used a lot for library and podcast promotional stuff is PS Print, www.psprint.com.