by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 26, 2015 | 1 true thing |
this day full of color and light family safely tucked in here and there friends sprinkled across the country the vision of artists and writers musical notes bountiful food health hope and this moment’s peace happy thanksgiving to each of you ~ 365 true things...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 25, 2015 | 1 true thing, memory |
On November 22, 1963, I was 6 years old. I would have said I was in kindergarten, but it was first grade. When the phone rang, I answered it in the small sitting room off the kitchen. I wasn’t much taller than the phone stand. After my great-aunt gave me the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 24, 2015 | 1 true thing, memory |
While I was Assistant to the President at Davidson College during the 1978-79 school year, one of my jobs was working with the Trustees. Dean Rusk, the former Secretary of State, was a Davidson graduate as well as a Trustee. At the time, I was also applying to law...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 24, 2015 | about the current writer, first novels, stories |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 23, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I was going to write a really good post tonight, but instead Cal and I are watching the third Hunger Games movie. Until tomorrow… ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 22, 2015 | 1 true thing |
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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...