by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Sep 3, 2013 | Getting Real: The Blog
It’s 10:00 at night, and I’m avoiding going to bed. There’s an undercurrent of anxiety running through my body – not enough to spur me into action… just enough to make me want to hide somewhere. A long practiced habit kicks in to help me, and I begin poking...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Aug 27, 2013 | Getting Real: The Blog
You know how you have parts of your life that you find ways of glossing over when you’re around others? Areas where you try hard to not raise any eyebrows, to sneak under the radar, without anyone else picking up that something’s off here? Well, for years, one of mine...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Aug 19, 2013 | Getting Real: The Blog
I like when I learn gracefully from Life. Now, that doesn’t always happen, but I just want to say that I like it better when it does. When I don’t learn gracefully, I think Life must have compassion on me, and seeing as how I’m not catching on so...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Aug 14, 2013 | Getting Real: The Blog
Choking banks of Kudzu twist long fingers around transient voltage suppressor diode power poles and wires. Heat rises in waves off the pavement, and the ever-present green wraps the land in a fierce benediction. Pale green fields of tobacco checker the landscape,...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Aug 9, 2013 | Getting Real: The Blog
I’m selling my farm. Well, actually, it belongs to me and my ex, and we’re selling it. If all goes well, I hope to hear back from a facility that works with horses and challenged kids, and I will be placing my horse partners there, with them. My dear four...
