savagemama: Stout hill to climb
24 Mar
When I moved to Missoula the first time in 1996 I hadn’t been far beyond South Carolina before. I’m not sure what compelled me to look into living so far from home or to consider going to school at a university other than my own for a semester. I was 19 and just wanted to see some place I’d never seen, I told my friends and family who were all a little perplexed. When I got to Missoula I kind of couldn’t believe I’d done it. I’d gotten in a car and come West. The mountains were white, the wind blew and this Southern girl was, for the first time, on her own. The learning curve was steep.
I am a freelance writer living at the base of the Mission Mountains in Arlee, Montana with my husband and two daughters. I write about them, growing up Southern, occasionally posing in my underwear and my love of the IRS form 1040, among other things. I write mostly nonfiction including essays and a weekly column for 
