by Andi | Oct 28, 2015 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
It’s done. I’ve pulled from my deepest soul. I’ve reviewed with a cool eye. I’ve asked for feedback. I’ve put in the dots and spaces. It’s ready. It’s time to put this book out into the world, and my hands are shaking as I... by Andi | Sep 23, 2015 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
Yesterday, someone sent me a note that compared me to Cheryl Strayed, which alone would have made my day. But then she said that something I wrote reminded me of Strayed’s words in tiny beautiful things, a book I adored at first reading and have come to hold as... by Andi | Jul 23, 2015 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
You can save some of the sentences, like bricks. It will be a miracle if you can save some of the paragraphs, no matter how excellent in themselves or hard-won. You can waste a year worrying about it, or you can get it over with now. (Are you a woman, or a mouse?)... by Andi | May 26, 2015 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
No one denied these men the right to own land, or to keep what they owned, or to sell it and give away their money. Yet that right implied an obligation to satisfy the needs of others as well as their own, and brought with it the privilege of doing so in a manner that... by Andi | May 21, 2015 | Andi's Book, Slavery, Written and Wrought
In a few minutes, Mosey, Meander, and I are headed to Bremo. We’ll be talking with some folks who are particularly interested in the history of the enslaved community there, who asked specifically to come hear about those people rather than see the plantation...