by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 21, 2015 | 1 true thing, Columbus GA |
This slideshow requires JavaScript. My favorite thing about Columbus is the RiverWalk–22 miles for walking and biking along the Chattahoochee River. Today Cal and I walked a loop–north along the Georgia side, across a bridge, south on the Alabama side,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 20, 2015 | 1 true thing, Columbus GA |
the view, early this morning, from my study where the novel revision is finally picking up steam ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 19, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Cal and I just finished watching the Last Days of Saigon, a documentary on the Vietnam War. I was eighteen as the war came to an end, but I had no idea how hard certain Americans worked, and with what risks, to get as many South Vietnamese as possible out of Saigon...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 18, 2015 | 1 true thing |
The song I wake up to when I set my alarm. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 17, 2015 | 1 true thing, memoir |
It was February of 1965. I was seven. My parents and I, and two of my sisters, had just piled into the station wagon that was parked in front of the church in Russellville, Kentucky, after my grandfather’s funeral. I was climbing over the seat into the way...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 16, 2015 | 1 true thing |
A year ago today, Cal and I took off for Paris. Child #4 was doing his fall semester in France–in Tours, the same place I had lived–and we were going to visit. If it were a year ago, he would still have a month to go. My love of France and all things...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 15, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I used to be a button collector. For one Christmas, I received a button-making machine. See that Davy Jones button? I made it. (Please excuse the Republican propaganda–I was young and heavily influenced by my parents.) ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 14, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m so sad about what happened in Paris. 129 people dead and 350 wounded. 129 people whose lives were cut short and who will be missed by the ones still here. What the terrorists have yet to figure out is that each time they strike, they make the rest of us...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 13, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When I was little, I was so scared of rain. I used to hide in the back of our coat closet at the first drop. Now I love rain, wind, storms. I’d rather have a gray day than a sunny one. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 12, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
My photos reveal my obsessions. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily practice
