by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 25 A Bite of a Slice is a moment within a Slice of Life. What is a Travel Bite? It is the retelling of a moment that I captured in real time during years and years and years of travel. I’ve crisscrossed the country for more than...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 24 In a couple days, in my heart, quietly, I will celebrate my dad’s birthday. He has now been gone from us longer than he was with us. The last day I was with him was my wedding day, the day he gave me to another man to have and to...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 23Written from a freewrite in my 2015 Journal The sun rose around 7 AM. When I looked out my dining room windows, I could see the shape of the magnolia buds, shadows against the dimly lit sky, a sign that spring is coming soon. The sun...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 22 I inherited my mom’s cookbooks. In the stack is a spiral bound cookbook she had purchased from one of my children’s school fund raisers: Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook. Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook I like to read cookbooks,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 21 Baking an apple pie? Which apples should you choose? One afternoon — when I was a novice at all things baking — I stood in front of the bins of apples in our grocery store’s fresh produce section, totally confused...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 19 On Tuesday, St. Patrick’s Day, in the spirit of the Irish, I decided we would write limericks. “We” refers to my daughter’s three youngest children, teenagers who school at home, and me. I teach their writing...
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