My Mother’s Stories
I did my best to collect my mother’s stories when she died. Curating a life in stories, trying to capture the memories, is a chore that many of us find su...
Category: Personal Essays
From Marine Life to Fiction: My Writing Journey
Trust Issues won’t be my first book, but it is my first full collection of fictional stories. So, it’s a little like starting over. Becoming an auth...
Sleeping Sickness: a childhood memory
Link to "Sleeping Sickness" that Kimberly Parish Davis wrote and that was just published by Well Read Magazine
Before Hurricane Helene
Kim's impressions of Asheville, North Carolina, days before Hurricane Helene decimated the area.
Cheating Songs
I wrote Cheating Songs for an online workshop I participated in last year, lead by Siobhan Wright. That workshop has generated some of my best work to date. It ...
Three Publications in a Week
It’s a rare week to receive printed proof that someone thought enough of it to include it next to other people’s work they thought enough of to publ...
A Clip from The Conch Shell 1979
An Article I wrote in 1979, “Preserving the Reefs” I was going through some old newspaper clippings my mother saved and I came across this article I...
The History of the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association
My History with Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association I wrote this piece for the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattlemen’s Association many years ag...
Hog Hunters in Texas
How the problem started Hog hunters have seem like they are everywhere in Texas any more. All over the state, farmers and ranchers are having big problems with ...
“Mommy, I See Jack!”
March 25, 1996 Journal Entry “…With Jack so unwell, I have to admit that I’m just waiting for him to die. This clinging to life with drugs and constant pain an...