by Ann Lee Miller | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, New Smyrna Beach FL
I angled up on my elbows from my beach towel, slack-jawed like Susan Sigler and Jackie Herold as we watched a jumble of high school jocks gambol through the surf. Their guffaws and your mamas grazed the sand toward us. We knew their names—had sat in Algebra or Biology... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
On Tuesday, April 22, 1975, my creative writing class of eleven students clambered into our teacher’s van in front of New Smyrna Beach High School. Florida morning steamed sweat across our foreheads and the backs of our necks. Fish and salt and the herbal scent of... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
I sat back on my heels in the front window of Behrens’ Book Store and eyed Jackie Herold’s Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls cradling a copy of Love Story. Ralph, my stepfather, had roped me into decorating the window for Valentine’s Day and I’d Tom-Sawyered Jackie into... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Jan 9, 2015 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
A white piece of paper fluttered onto my lit book as James Knox, moved past my desk. Song for Emil had been typed across the top of what must be song lyrics. My forehead wrinkled and questions bumper-carred around my head. I watched James, the most vocal member of... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
Photo by Maria Carrasco The smallest bridge in New Smyrna Beach, rising less than six feet from Washington Street, might as well have been the Sunshine Skyway over Tampa Bay. My shoulders bunched with tension and my knuckles whitened on the stick shift as I eyed the...
