Welcome to My Author Portfolio
TOP TEN SIGNS THAT SPRING HAS ARRIVED
10. The leaves that never came off in autumn are now falling
9. The cold and allergy aisle at Wal-Mart is clogged up
8. H & R Block wants to be friends on Facebook
7. Cracker Barrel is beginning to put out Christmas items
6. March Madness has already turned into March Sadness
5. Punxsutawney Phil no longer needs a bodyguard
4. The swallows are returning to Capistrano
3. Lady Gaga’s bulldogs have come back home to roost
2. You choose your wardrobe based on what looks best with pine pollen
1. You’ve given up making top ten lists for Lent—oops!
PUBLISHED STORIES AND ESSAYS
OTHER PUBLISHED STORIES... AND ESSAYS
How To Eat Right
How To Manage Your Money
How To Stay Healthy
The Fall Of Squirrel
Cake Walk
Do-gooders Gotta Eat Too
Of Peas and Queues
Three O'clock in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Star Falls on Alabama
News Item
The Visitor
Mr. Blinkie To The Rescue
The Point System
Elements Of Success
She Spits to Conquer
So THAT's What Happened
The Tree Remembers
Christmas Time Is Here
The Sodfather
What MLK Day Means To Me
Thanks, Mussolini
The Cure
Tarzan In Decline
Side Effects
Greatest Of All Time (forthcoming)
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AWARDS AND HONORS
2013 First Place Humor Division Alabama Writers Conclave (AWC) Contest
2014 Finalist PNWA Competition Short Topics Category
2015 First Place Creative Non-Fiction Division AWC Contest
2016 Second Place Fiction Gulf Coast Writers Let's Write Contest
2017 Pushcart Prize nomination from Hawaii Pacific Review for The Last Hundred Days
2018 First Honorable Mention Short Story Division AWC contest
2018 Second Place Chattahoochee Valley Contest Short Story category
2019 First Place Flash Fiction Division AWC contest
2020 First Place Essay Streetlight Magazine
2020 Top ten finalist for The Opossum Prize
2020 Honorable Mention Stories That Need To Be Told Anthology
2020 First place Flash Fiction category in Seven Hills contest
"Life is a moderately good play with a poorly written third act."
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Truman Capote
"Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
CURRENTLY READING
...or just finished
Pity The Reader by Suzanne McConnell
At Home by Bill Bryson
