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By Jennie Helderman on Aug 04, 2010 in Featured
At least they’re honest about it! Sad to say, this is where I bank—in Atlanta on Peachtree across from the Brookhaven Oglethorpe Marta Station.
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Take a peek at the Prologue—
By Jennie Helderman on Jun 28, 2010 in Featured
Prologue: The Briefcase Alabama. September, 2005. My assignment: A magazine story about poverty in Alabama. Fifteen hundred words. Real people, real names. Due in two weeks. High stepping, but I knew where to look. I’d worked at walk-in helping social service agencies, taught school in rural Alabama, and clerked at debtors’ court. I cast a big [...]
Couldn’t put it down—-reviews coming in
By Jennie Helderman on Jun 16, 2010 in Featured
This from Lundy Bancroft, an authority on abuse and especially on abusive men: “Rarely has a story of a woman’s courageous fight for freedom been told in such an eloquent and moving way. And, even more unusual, we get an open view into the twisted mentality of a vicious man who was able, like [...]
Summers Bridgewater Press
By Jennie Helderman on Jun 15, 2010 in Featured
I’m publisher, president, CEO and chief bill-payer.
Book cover—book news
By Jennie Helderman on Jun 15, 2010 in Featured
Finally, the final book cover. I love it, so do many of you. So the decision is made. This sycamore tree is the tree for As the Sycamore Grows. But reaching this point has been a curvy road. If experience is the best teacher, then I’ll earn a graduate degree soon. Sycamore will launch in October, [...]
Signs
By Jennie Helderman on Mar 27, 2010 in Featured
Signs and Alabama Memories Coca-Cola. Buffalo Rock. Slow Children Playing. Old signs on the brick wall of Ray’s Furniture Store in Calera, Alabama, shot this time through the lens of Chip Cooper’s camera for his 1989 book, Alabama Memories. I’m drawn to Cooper’s photograph . It takes me back to the 1970s and pop art, [...]
Living in your dreams
By Jennie Helderman on Mar 27, 2010 in Featured
“Why do you paint pictures on the walls?” I asked Brenda Davis. Brenda lives in a run down double-wide down a red clay road in central Alabama. She’s proud of her home. Its roof doesn’t leak, it’s air-conditioned, and the floors are real—as opposed to the caved-in vine-covered dirt-floored structure where she used to live. [...]
Picturing Home….Brenda Davis
By Jennie Helderman on Mar 27, 2010 in Featured
Somebody said, I think it was Robert Frost, that home is where when you go there, they have to take you in. How do you picture home? Is it where you came from or where you’re headed? A real place, or what you dream about? Brenda Davis’ dreams picture her home. Literally. Brenda is a [...]
Writing about scripture—
By Jennie Helderman on Mar 14, 2010 in Featured
“Would you write a Lenten meditation?” asked the young priest. “I’d like to add your voice to the mix.” Of course, I answered, masking my apprehension. I’m still new to this church, still trying to find my place among its 2000 members when my experience has been in small town Episcopal churches. I am writing [...]
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Sally Berger
By Jennie Helderman on Mar 09, 2010 in Featured
And for late starters such as me, we have to run faster to keep up. I’ve been telling stories since I could talk but only in the last years did I call myself a writer. I never kept clips, never knew I would need them some day. So now I trot but I’m making good [...]
