My love for plants is a legacy from my maternal grandmother, Belle Dunaway Payne, Belle D. to all who loved her. She is the central character in my memories of the first seven years […]
Ina Leonard
INA LEONARD has lived in Birmingham, Alabama, for most of her life. After a career as an attorney for a large state university, she made writing her primary occupation. In May, 2017, Ina completed an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Transitions
You know you are a widow when you follow your nose into a seldom-used patio and spy the ripe carcass of a large rat, half-eaten and deposited precisely in the middle of the path between gate and stairs by a neighborhood cat. You hesitate briefly to consider whether it might be […]
Adelante
On a recent, steamy July evening in Hoover, Alabama, the moderator closed a meeting at the Adelante Alabama Workers Center by asking those of us assembled to volunteer to place our bodies and our white privilege between undocumented immigrants and governmental authorities. The substance of the remark was not a surprise; we had come to […]