New Website
Welcome to my new website! My forthcoming book, A Few Honest Words, will be released October 2012. In the meantime, take a look around. Read an excerpt that was just published in Sojourners magazine....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: "I'm Not Lisa"
It’s Throwback Thursday here at On the Margins, and featured today is the great Jessi Colter’s classic heartbreaker “I’m Not Lisa.” The story of living with a man who has not gotten over his former...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: "The Wheel"
For this week’s Throwback Thursday we look back to 1993, the year the great Rosanne Cash released her seminal album The Wheel. Written and recorded following her exodus from Nashville to New York, the...
View ArticleA Few Honest Words Debuts At The Americana Music Festival
Photo by Silas House Yesterday marked the debut of A Few Honest Words at the annual Americana Music Association Festival in Nashville. There couldn't have been a more appropriate place for my first...
View ArticleJASON AND NAOMI JUDD AT THE SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
One of my favorite weekends of the year has come and gone, but what a special time it was. At this year's Southern Festival of Books, I was joined by country music icon Naomi Judd to discuss A Few...
View ArticleBest Albums of 2012
One of my favorite questions I get from audience members at readings is about what and who I'm listening to at the moment. Here are my Top 25 from 2012--unranked and in alphabetical order--followed by...
View ArticleNew Website
Welcome to my new website! My forthcoming book, A Few Honest Words, will be released October 2012. In the meantime, take a look around. Read an excerpt that was just published in Sojourners magazine....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: "I'm Not Lisa"
It’s Throwback Thursday here at On the Margins, and featured today is the great Jessi Colter’s classic heartbreaker “I’m Not Lisa.” The story of living with a man who has not gotten over his former...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: "The Wheel"
For this week’s Throwback Thursday we look back to 1993, the year the great Rosanne Cash released her seminal album The Wheel. Written and recorded following her exodus from Nashville to New York, the...
View ArticleA Few Honest Words Debuts At The Americana Music Festival
Photo by Silas House Yesterday marked the debut of A Few Honest Words at the annual Americana Music Association Festival in Nashville. There couldn't have been a more appropriate place for my first...
View ArticleJASON AND NAOMI JUDD AT THE SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
One of my favorite weekends of the year has come and gone, but what a special time it was. At this year's Southern Festival of Books, I was joined by country music icon Naomi Judd to discuss A Few...
View ArticleBest Albums of 2012
One of my favorite questions I get from audience members at readings is about what and who I'm listening to at the moment. Here are my Top 25 from 2012--unranked and in alphabetical order--followed by...
View ArticleCreative Process Blog Tour
A couple of weeks ago, I was recruited to participate in the Virtual Blog Tour that's been making the rounds, in which writers answer questions about their creative process. I was first tagged in this...
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