Please listen to this fabulous episode from The Poetry of Reality podcast.
Richard Dawkins was the perfect antidote for my Southern Baptist fundamentalism. I wish he’d come along when I was much younger. Sad I wasted 60 years of my life believing the unbelievable, defending the indefensible.
Writer. Observer. Builder. I write from a life shaped by attention, simplicity, and living without a script—through reflective essays, long-form inquiry, and fiction rooted in ordinary lives. I live in rural Alabama, where writing, walking, and building small, intentional spaces are part of the same practice.
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The Pencil-Driven Life 