I've written about anger before ... In poems for my memoir .... Anger's Beginning Anger itself is not violent, but when left to fester, it can become a hurricane sweeping through the Caribbean to Florida up through my home state, South Carolina. Those storms are never forgotten. The reason I write about my experience with… Continue reading Parting with Anger
Category: Life
Longer Than Six Weeks: A Mom’s Journey
There is also the fear of: How will I work at the rate I did before? Will I be what I was before?
What is “Never Saw Jesus in the Mirror”?
I took seven-and-a-half-years to write my novel, Sons of the Edisto. Like a friendship begun in childhood, I have scribbled different narratives and poems about my journey from journalism into motherhood and teaching. It might sound mundane at first, but ... Some had to do with my relationship with my husband. Some poems were about my… Continue reading What is “Never Saw Jesus in the Mirror”?
The Not So Mundane
Luckily, those wars end with writing. Not someone getting arrested.
When Dolphins Bite: 5 Things to 2015
I look forward to a new year. As I told my son, it's a new start in more ways than one. I'm almost finished with graduate school. The end is in sight. It feels like I've been in college again for more than a decade, which makes me wonder how people go to school straight… Continue reading When Dolphins Bite: 5 Things to 2015
I Might Have Given Up If …
Fireworks and sparklers will burst in the 4th of July sky tomorrow night. The holiday celebrates what many Americans value, resilience. When you read my recent posts, a word keeps popping up: advocacy. Granted, my professors and books have beaten the word into my head for educational purposes. But, it is significant in building up… Continue reading I Might Have Given Up If …
Ready to Talk: Beginnings
There is something to a love story. Not the sappy, man with bare chest caries helpless woman with dress draped over her shoulder romance. There are the love stories everyone approves. Then there's the love stories that puts vinegar in people's sugar. Ready to Talk A Memoir by Rebecca T. Dickinson… Continue reading Ready to Talk: Beginnings
You Say Goodbye; I Say Hello
The Beatles knew a thing or two in writing lyrics. The band understood how music and lyrics changed as the band evolved. Their writing matured. My writing and what I write about has changed, too. Although 2014 had some great milestones, I'm glad it is ending. I look forward to 2015. I look forward to… Continue reading You Say Goodbye; I Say Hello
Time Best Spent Writing
Your son comes in the bathroom. He sits on the floor and asks when you're going to play in his room with him. The new baby cries ready to be fed. "We will play after nap," I say. Just a few moments before, your son had entertained himself and the baby slept. You have just… Continue reading Time Best Spent Writing
Remembering Confidence
I am still here. I am even writing again. You: You mean you stopped? The Craziest Best Professor Ever Creatively, yeah. There was a situation. Something about working extremely hard for an insane professor who said, "You need to forget everything you've ever been told about writing," and a professor who gave straight A education students Cs… Continue reading Remembering Confidence
Corrie's Season 