Confessions of an Amazon Exile
Lately, you hear a lot of complaints about censorship. It’s a big, newsy topic. Conservatives...
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OPINION | Rants & Raves
Trial and Error
Last Thursday I messaged my sister in Charleston, saying, “The Murdaugh trial is ruining my Film...
Read MoreMy Traditional Movie Column
Jeff and I were chatting at Agave Thursday night, having just left the Chamber’s Business After...
Read MoreCringing in Advance
I read a funny, provocative column in the NY Times last week called “Future Cringe.” It posed the...
Read MoreYou Don’t Say
Did you hear about Stanford University’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative? Apparently,...
Read MoreTales of Technology
In Alabama over Christmas, I was driving to the childhood home of a dear old friend – a house I’d...
Read MoreScrooge, The Grinch, and Me
Editor’s Note: I first published this column in 2011. I still mean every word. – Margaret ...
Read MoreRead Local
Yesterday morning I was reading an essay in the NY Times online called “The Questions to Ask...
Read MoreThis One’s for the Girls
I was on the phone with my friend Marly Rusoff the other day, debriefing after this year’s Pat...
Read MoreOn Losing and Finding Hope
The Saturday morning before Halloween, I opened the New York Times online, scanned a few...
Read MoreGoodbye to All That
After 25 years, the Charles Street Gallery closes its doors. For the first few years after our...
Read MoreThe Main Gift of Literature
What do Mumbai, India and Savannah, Georgia have in common? Both are settings of exceptional new...
Read MoreOff Script
My husband emailed me something from The Atlantic the other day, accompanied by the comment,...
Read MoreNo Fairy Tale
My daughter called out of the blue from Clemson Thursday and asked, “Mom, did you hear about the...
Read MoreOn Kudzu and Butterflies
Note: Here’s an oldie from August 2017. I think it’s evergreen. Unlike kudzu. – Margaret I was out...
Read MoreSmall Pleasures & The Big Picture
Here in the US, we’re deep into the dog days, but the weather’s not the only thing overheating. I...
Read MoreThe Monsters of Summer
My family and I were watching the final episode of ‘Stranger Things,’ Season Four. Amelia had...
Read MoreKitten Smitten
Allow me to interrupt our regularly scheduled program of doom, gloom, and apocalyptic hysteria to...
Read MoreA House Divided?
Have you seen the latest issue of The New Yorker? It’s been years since I subscribed, but the...
Read MoreTraveling Mercies
I’m writing from the Victoria Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, midway through a family travel...
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