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Karen Spears Zacharias

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May 2014

May 22, 2014

Summers at Christian Bend, TN

         Wild dogwoods were in bloom when Mama’s Aunt Cil died in...

May 17, 2014

The Lost Father

Today (Saturday, May 17) is my father's birthday. Had he lived we would be celebrating...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Body Bag memory

A prayer of David If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I...

April 07, 2014

Hoe it out

  My daughter and her family are preparing to move to a new community after...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Fred Phelps: Life of Fear

I'm not proud of it but there have been people I have hated in my...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

President Johnson’s Moron Corps

  All this talk of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty has got me...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

The Creative’s Path

Whenever people ask how I became a writer I tell them Vietnam made me a...

July 05, 2013

The Things Unspoken

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Notes from Mama’s Bible

She wrote all sorts of notes in her bible, my mother did. Not just favorite...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

On Bended Knee for Boston

I have been on the road -- I'll tell you more about that in another...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

The best dream I never had

  Anyone who knows our daughter Konnie knows that she lives out her joy. That...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

The Poet Incarnate

I tried to find him, asked everyone I came across: Do you know the name...

January 17, 2013

Giving Unemployment the Texas Boot: Kathy Patrick

If it is true what they say about necessity being the mother of invention, then...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

McGovern & A Million Mundane Moments

There are these moments, mundane ones usually, when a harsh truth confronts me. Tonight it...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

The Veterans & the Nurse

It's the veterans she served as a nurse that Mama remembers best. Bruce. Homer. Mike....

April 2012

April 18, 2012

In the wake of human tragedy

Shelf Awareness A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias...

March 2012

March 11, 2012

As Afghans lay sleeping

It's not quite My Lai but it is a nightmare nonetheless. An American soldier, reportedly...

December 2011

December 18, 2011

What will you do with the gift?

  As headlines announce the withdrawal of troops in Iraq and as politicians tout victories...

December 15, 2011

We are a Gold Star Family: Sucks 2 be U

  Daddy was the first dead person I ever saw. A child never forgets that...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

Roll Call:Bill Huff

If it is true what they say about the ways in which we are connected...

November 09, 2011

The Veteran’s Wife

She’s the first person at church to greet everyone by name. The Veteran’s Wife commits...

August 2011

August 08, 2011

Holler of the Holies: The Hillbilly's Sanctuary

My buddy Gordon took this photo on April 16, 2007. I know the date because...

June 2011

June 05, 2011

Trash-talking teachers

(Tim encouraging a player who missed a shot that would have given the Dawgs an...

May 2011

May 23, 2011

Camping Prohibited

Harold Camping had it wrong -- again. The world did not end on Saturday. It's...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Ministering to the Unemployed

Last week I was in Pendleton to meet with a prosecutor. No. I'm not in...

January 06, 2011

The holiness of dragonflies & such

  It's a rare thing that unfolds, like the mystery of happening upon dozens of dragonflies in...

November 2010

November 11, 2010

The Veteran

    The Veteran   Butterbean sits at The Veteran’s bedside. She’s a junkyard dog....

October 2010

October 14, 2010

That Dark Cloud

I have put off writing about this because I know how you people are, you'll freak out...

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