by Ann Lee Miller | Oct 16, 2015 | Ashland OH, Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
I’d hiked uphill behind Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center in Black Mountain, North Carolina. A summer breeze ruffled the nearby leaves and cooled the sweat on my skin. I turned around to a sea of greens my color-blind eyes couldn’t catalogue. A dirt road curled up... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Jul 3, 2015 | Ashland OH, Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat, New Smyrna Beach FL
The fairytale ending I’d hoped would happen between me and Dad—didn’t. I matured. Dad mellowed into middle age. But we still muddled through life in the emotional ruts we’d laid down long ago. The only thing that shifted in my teens was the balance of power. While I’d... by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 14, 2014 | Ashland OH, Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today’s post is a How-I-Met-Your-Father—minus a litany of ex-boyfriends that would jettison my kids into therapy. At twenty-one I was an Ashland (OH) University creative writing major chasing a dream—hermit writer on the North Carolina...
