Maggie Reads

S tarting in June, I will fly the Mississippi River from the source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf. In order to accomplish this adventure, I wil...

I grew up in a neighborhood of all boys. My cousin, Sheila, lived three blocks north and my friend from school was one block south, but sh...

T he prologue begins, “It was the first Ole Miss game that season in Jackson, and I’d been looking forward to it all summer.” Stuart Stev...

M onday night was host to the game of a lifetime in the Moran house. The SEC championship between Clemson and Alabama put Pete and me at op...

A little over ten years ago, I started writing book talks for The Southern Reporter , a local newspaper based in Sardis, MS. I had gradu...

“ T he problem of flight” was the phrase used often by the Wright brothers. While others were out trying to solve it, the brothers though...

I t was lost or so it seemed. The 1939 Olympic gold medal for winning the eight-oared rowing competition was placed somewhere in the hous...

L eonard Self made a promise and today he must honor it. His lovely wife, Inetta, died on this date one year ago and before passing she mad...

M ay 7, 2015, marks the 100 th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine torpedo. ...

A xl and Beatrice are being denied a simple flame to keep them comfortable at night. They live in a mud cave of many chambers on the side o...

I got an exciting email last night from Dr. Sue Clifton. She is one of 37 talented writers who will be appearing at the Author Rodeo Round...

O ne of the most exciting times for a woman is pregnancy. The questions that are never ending start to form in her head as her body does so...

T his past weekend, I finished the Little Rock Marathon with a person I met that morning who literally changed my thinking process for the ...

I am so in awe of author Willie Morris. During our snow break, I read Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town ,  Remembering Willie ,...

L ast year, I went from a slow 13 minute mile to a glacier 14 minute mile pace and gained weight all while training for a marathon. What? T...

J ayrod could hear the bell his teacher, Mrs. Snitch, wielded with great enthusiasm off in the distance. He was stuck to the earth unable t...

M ary Rowlandson’s life is in jeopardy. Two weeks ago she was shot at and taken as spoils of the siege on her small village in Bay Colony, ...

T he Sinclairs have money. Tipper and Harris have so much money that they own an island off the coast of Massachusetts called Beechwood. Ea...

N ow that the movie Unbroken has been out in theaters for a couple of weeks, I have to state my opinion that the book is better. One mig...

I am reading a book with the underlining theme of regret. Rumble  by Ellen Hopkins is a young adult book with an 18-year-old main charact...

S ixteen-year-old Ada lives with her mother, Mutti, and grandmother, Omi, on the west side of Berlin. Eighteen-year-old Stefan lives with...

S eeing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on my bucket list. It is now in its 88 th year as a parade, but in 1924 it was called Macy’s...

E dgar Allan Poe lives! I read Through the Woods  by Emily Carroll and could not help but think of the great poet. From her first story, re...

I t was a hot humid day in New York City when Celia Szapka climbed into the packed train at Union Station. She had splurged and bought a ne...

W illie Morris once said, “He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.” I met one such stranger last night in my rea...