Author, Tree Street Kids
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be teaching a media writing course at the college where I work full time in public relations. I also serve as an adjunct faculty member. Ironically, I applied for a similar position in the English department about 10 years ago, and my interview with the very erudite professor fell […]
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2011, and our last day in Millersburg, Kentucky, for the holiday weekend… From where I sit I can see–just outside the sliding glass doors–the line of scrub trees separating the expanse of the old house’s back yard from the cow pasture that swells gently up to the south and is crowned with tombstones, […]
Read MoreThe first time my elder daughter tells me she’s going on a date, I will die. Maybe not all of me, but that part that believes she will always be content to sit at the computer chatting online with her friends or watching reruns of “The Nanny” with me at midnight. I’ve had it easy, […]
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Read MoreBarbie has taught generations of girls a lot over the years. And, for me, those lessons hold far more value than my 1970s Mod Hair Ken with the “combable hair and all the makings for a new look.” Barbie never dies, she just gets naked Playing with Barbie dolls helps children answer many of life’s […]
Read MoreAt times it reads like poetry… “She is the woman at the window, whom artists of every nation have beheld, but always from the outside of her house. And her eyes are always faraway…She is the mother of Sisera, whose son once commanded the armies of Canaan.” At times it reads like the directions in […]
Read MoreThe sandwich you hadn’t eaten was in front of you on an unfolded sheet of waxed paper like a terrible secret exposed.
Read MoreOld recipes are part of our family’s folklore.
Read More“My mother was baptized in the Mississippi River,” she had said many times, always adding the all important “wearing her blue dress with the white polka dots.”
Read MoreA moment of leading the tribe instead of managing the children
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Amanda Cleary Eastep 