Sharon Gerald's Page

I hope to blog daily (mostly) during January and beyond. I'd love to do a 365 project, though I don't have that much faith in my commitment levels.

Anyhow, I won't be blogging here. I have two main blogs at the moment:

www.writerlyhaphazardry.net

and

www.teacherlytech.net

Stop by for a visit some time.

I'll be blogging some--maybe not daily--at www.writerlyhaphazardry.net for National Poetry Month.

I'm going to commit to January 09 at NaBloPoMo, and I'm hoping to make it to at least April 13 (Eudora Welty's birthday). Since I've figured out the rss, though, I'm just going to feed my posts here from http://aweltyaday.wordpress.com rather than cross posting everything.

This is not my normal blog, but a specialty blog I set up just to do the Welty project. I'm getting back to my literary and Southern roots for the year of Miss Welty's centennial.

If I ever manage to return to anything that… Continue

Cross-posted from http://aweltyaday.wordpress.com

This first story in A Curtain of Green, and my first to read for this blog, reminds me why I love Welty. I always love to read stories brimming with familiarity of place and character. Since a large part of Lily Daw revolves around discussion of shipping Lily off to the “Ellisville Institute for the Feeble-Minded of Mississippi,” I certainly have that covered. I drive past the actual Ellisville State School, as we refer to it these days,… Continue