by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 27, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m a polite person most of the time. Generally speaking, the less well I know you, the more polite I am. Ergo, I am less polite to Cal than I am to anyone else. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 27, 2015 | about the current writer, essays, How We Spend Our Days, 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 | Jul 26, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When I got to the halfway point in this practice 12 days ago, I was excited, yes, but I was also thinking this is just now halfway-I have to do this many again… And today I’m just plain sick of myself. I don’t want to know what I’m thinking or...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 25, 2015 | 1 true thing |
We all know there are some things I won’t be able to write here. So I’ve started a private list. I see this as continued progress. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 24, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Last night Cal and I watched 21 Grams (2003)–which shows the lives of 3 characters before, during, and after an accident that brings them together. Directed by Iñárritu, nonlinear, and stunning. Tonight it’s the other end of the spectrum. We’re...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 23, 2015 | 1 true thing, Columbus GA, obsession |
I have a thing for little houses in a row. It’s the matching in a world of randomness that draws her to the houses. On the outside, for all to see, they belong to each other. Proudly. Yes, they say, there is something alike about us and we need each other to be whole....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 22, 2015 | 1 true thing, marriage |
When I was 20, I married my high school sweetheart. We graduated from college and went to live in France for a year, where I was teaching English at a lycee and he did some tutoring. I came home pregnant, started law school, and Kathleen was born over Christmas break....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 21, 2015 | 1 true thing |
We used to leave my grandparents’ house in Mobile early in the morning to go to Dauphin Island. Lilli would make breakfast there on the beach. In this photo I’m the one lying on the ground. I’m 6 years old. My mother won’t be 30 for another...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 20, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I grew up wearing slips; I had a drawer full. Half slips, whole slips, all different lengths and colors. I recently bought a black dress that’s somewhat see-thru, and I asked the salesperson if I needed to wear a slip? It didn’t feel right not to....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 19, 2015 | 1 true thing |
For years, I did not read the paper–any paper. Then in January of 2009 I decided I needed my horizons broadened. Now I read Sunday’s The New York Times. And I enjoy reading it. In February, the Sunday Book Review featured Anne Tyler in “By the...
