by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 16, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Would Batman really get married? On Thanksgiving Eve 1966, and all Thanksgiving Day, that was all I could think about. Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, had said “I do,” but we would have to wait until that night to find out if Batman was going to say, “I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 15, 2015 | 1 true thing |
For the last year, I’ve had a subscription to The Paris Review–mainly for the interviews–Lydia Davis, Elena Ferrante, Jane Smiley. I wish I could call up literary traditions the way they can–what Dickens contributed, for example, or the way...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 14, 2015 | 1 true thing |
In Birmingham, the tiny almost one-week old baby is asleep in my room. It’s dark and quiet. There will be small cries. And that feeling of just the two of us in the world. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 13, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I like. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily practice
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 12, 2015 | 1 true thing |
In the house where I grew up, we added on a family room, and because of my mother’s fondness for owls, which we seized upon at every gift-giving occasion, the new room became known as “the owl room.” Any other owl rooms out there? ~ 365 true things...