Deborah Adams's Blog, page 56
April 11, 2017
Okra Flow Yoga ™ Brings Enlightened Movementto the Deep South and Beyond
In a light and airy community room below the Mason-Dixon, a diverse group of individuals practices a style of yoga that few outside the Southern United States have ever witnessed. Okra Flow Yoga ™ —or OFY (pronounced OH-fee)—is an innovative adaptation that blends traditional Indian yoga with the soulful life rhythms of the American South. It incorporates the universal principles of Patanjali’s Eight Limbs with kriya and hatha, resulting in a transformative experience of awareness.
OFY takes...
OFY takes...
April 4, 2017
Hello, the Patriot!
When I was a child, my parents would sometimes drive us down to the foot of Broadway in Paducah to watch the barges. That is, we'd SIT in the car and wait for a barge to come by. Hours. Days. Nothing to do but sit. And wait. I hated it.Times change, perceptions change. Now I love to catch a barge making its way along the Tennessee River. Just FYI to the crews -- I wave at you. I waved at the crew of the Patriot when they went by in November, but I can't tell from this pic whether they w...
August 29, 2016
Wibbly wobbly ball of time well-spent
For the better part of a week, I’ve been tidying my office. A full 99% of that time was spent trying to wrangle books into their proper places on the shelves. (They move in the night--QRs tucking themselves in amongst the BLs and E605s snuggling against the C600s, all of them laughing at me while I search in vain for a particular title.)
In the course of this project, I found all manner of books that I’d forgotten I own. It’s possible that the job would have been completed sooner if I hadn’t s...
In the course of this project, I found all manner of books that I’d forgotten I own. It’s possible that the job would have been completed sooner if I hadn’t s...
August 1, 2016
Jesus Creek 3 - the series continues
The third book in the Jesus Creek mysteries is now available as an ebook. I've tried to add some additional material to each of these ebooks, and for this one I've included the ONLY Jesus Creek short story ever written. Also Eloise's biscuit recipe.Kay Martin is the protagonist this time. Kay is a poet, and I had fun re-living my own days as a poet. Well, not fun so much as amused annoyance, as I remembered those ambiguous rejection letters ('This came close.') that poets collect by the...
July 29, 2016
Femmes Fatales still getting away with murder
Mary Saums kindly invited me to provide a guest post for the Femmes Fatales blog today, and thank you, Mary!
The Femmes are a group of mystery writers who teamed up many, many years ago to promote books. Over time, the individuals have changed --there's even a male Femme now!-- and the methods of book promotion have changed, as well. Even the books have changed, no longer being confined to words printed on a page.
My post explains a little about the results that grew out of the collaboration. Y...
The Femmes are a group of mystery writers who teamed up many, many years ago to promote books. Over time, the individuals have changed --there's even a male Femme now!-- and the methods of book promotion have changed, as well. Even the books have changed, no longer being confined to words printed on a page.
My post explains a little about the results that grew out of the collaboration. Y...
July 16, 2016
Librarians of Jesus Creek and elsewhere
The second book in the Jesus Creek series, All The Crazy Winters, just became available as an ebook.
During the early stages of research, I asked my local librarians what there might be in a library that could serve as a murder weapon. And all of them started shouting out ideas: “A heavy book!” “This chair!” “The spindle!” And so forth.
Mind you, they did not take time to consider it; they answered immediately, almost as if they’d been thinking of how to commit murder all along.
There was a time...
During the early stages of research, I asked my local librarians what there might be in a library that could serve as a murder weapon. And all of them started shouting out ideas: “A heavy book!” “This chair!” “The spindle!” And so forth.
Mind you, they did not take time to consider it; they answered immediately, almost as if they’d been thinking of how to commit murder all along.
There was a time...
July 11, 2016
The path to Jesus Creek citizenship
It’s been over 25 years since I wrote the first Jesus Creek novel, All The Great Pretenders. Since then, the world and I have changed a great deal, but Jesus Creek and its residents remain just as quirky and self-contained as they always were.While I’ve been writing other things (sometimes under other names), the Jesus Creek books have been in a sort of limbo-- allowed to go out of print by the original publisher. I’m absolutely thrilled to have the rights back at last, and I’m working...
July 4, 2016
Between the house and the garden
Guardian of the Garden and Chicken Pen, this guy keeps the mice away in exchange for an egg now and then. Not sure why he looks so wrinkled here. Any ideas?June 8, 2015
Leave it alone and it turns into art...
Wabi Sabi : the beauty of the imperfect,
the impermanent, the humble....
the impermanent, the humble....
May 24, 2015
Arts & Ag
Hickman County, Tennessee OUGHT to be one of those sleepy little places that withers away in obscurity — no WalMart, no mall, no Starbucks. But the spirit of this community is so strong and vital, it just can’t help thriving. As proof, I give you the annual Arts & Ag Farm Tour. A few years ago, three women in the community had a bright idea, which grew and grew and grew. And now every spring, farms and businesses in the county open up to the public.Produce, crafts, music, wine, you nam...
