On the Brink of the Unknown . . .

As always. My good friend Jenny would occasionally close her prayers with that phrase, and I always thought it was so elegant in addition to being true. While I am not always aware of the reality of that insight, sometimes I am. Like now. The Boone Series is finished,...

Rethinking Boone

For the past six years or so I’ve been sitting at my keyboard following Boone around, trying to capture his journey as he stumbles into adulthood, and I thought I was telling a coming of age in Appalachia story. Then I realized I was also trying to give voice to the...