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WATCHING HOPE FADE FASTER THAN A HENNA TATTOO
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social In 2004, I took a solo trip to Morocco where a friend was assigned to the consulate in Casablanca. I traveled around the country on my own, but in Casablanca I was invited into the private homes of several of my friend’s co-workers. This journey left an indelible mark on
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SMALL TOWNS ROCK – GRAFTON AND PHILIPPI, WEST VIRGINIA
Photo: On the dam trail in Tygart Lake State Park By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social We stumbled upon a unique area in West Virginia. Each year we visit family in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The three hundred miles between them takes us through West Virginia and the New River Gorge, which we’ve visited several
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ON THE ROAD – COASTAL MAINE AND ROAD SCHOLAR
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social “Let’s go somewhere we’ve never been,” I suggested nearly a year ago to my husband. “I’ve never been to Maine,” he replied. I had been to Maine once for fifteen minutes when I’d visited Portsmouth, New Hampshire, decades ago. We drove over the border to buy live Maine lobsters than
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DESSIE SMITH PRESCOTT – A WOMAN FOR THE AGES
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social As a freelance writer, I’ve been fortunate enough to write about some interesting events and people. In a few instances, I’ve even had the privilege of interviewing a handful of famous or infamous folks. Dessie Smith Prescott could be categorized as both famous and infamous, and the interview with her
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THE HUMAN HEIRS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social Last week, I wrote about the inspiration of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on my life and career. Here is the essay “Human Heirs” that I wrote for the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Essay Contest in 2001 as I left my decades-long teaching career to venture into freelance writing. The essay won first
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A WRITER’S LIFE AND INSPIRATION
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling and Cross Creek and many more books, remains an inspiration to me even though she died a year before I was born. Still, her journey as author and woman who left the north for the south provided a road map for me. I
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