Tag Archives: New Year’s Eve

New column: “Embrace the New Year not by forgetting, but by letting go”

Happy in-between time, everyone! I hope you’ll get a chance to enjoy this new column of mine by a roaring fire, a drink of your choice in hand. This week, I’m writing about New Year’s adages, the past, the future, … Continue reading

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New column: “New Year’s traditions around the world and at home”

This New Year’s, be like people in other countries: toss flowers into the sea, talk to animals, wear colorful underwear. Smooch. That and more in my column in The Greenville News. Happy New Year to all!

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New column: What are you doing New Year’s?

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks! Are you ready to ring in 2016? It’s been some kind of year, hasn’t it? Wherever you are, I hope you “take a cup of kindness” with friends and family, old and new. And I … Continue reading

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Catching Up: Newspaper Columns for Christmas & New Year’s

Happy New Year’s, you find people, you! As you recover from New Year’s Eve I hope you’ll put your feet up while you read today’s and last week’s columns in The Greenville News. (We were in colonial Williamsburg–more on this … Continue reading

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Tak’ a Cup o’ Kindness

On this New Year’s Eve, I wanted to thank you all for being so good to me over the past year–for reading my novel, Keowee Valley, and falling in love with its characters–especially Quinn and Jack–and the wild Carolina frontier, … Continue reading

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