How a nightmare trip to Alabama led to becoming penpals with Harper Lee
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I was pretty sure God didn't want me to see Paul Simon.
I bought two fourth-row tickets to see Paul Simon at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville — The day they went on sale. I paid way too much for them. Three months later, I'm laying in bed in sweats one Tuesday night when I read in real-time on Twitter—"Just saw the legend, Paul Simon, tonight at the Ryman Auditorium."
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As I gazed into Rick’s hypnotic hazel eyes, the T.V. screen disappeared, and the whole world made sense. I cannot adequately express the force of raw love jolting through my eleven-year-old veins. But, for the first time, I knew why I was on Earth: to marry this man.
He would be the poetic justice to my sad and shitty life.
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My favorite dog I've ever had is Girlfriend. I've come to learn that your love-meter with a pet is kind of a mutual thing. Girlfriend is 75% French Bulldog, 12.5 Pug, and 12.5 Boston Terrier, AND 100% super-freak. She's the craziest, funniest, most unpredictable dog I've ever known. They say dogs emulate their owners… so I don't know what that says about me.
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In 2013, My husband, Chris and I got set up to write with John Legend. I definitely knew his name but didn't really know any of his music. It was late summer and he came over to #AimeelandStudio to do a night write. One of his background singers was also writing with us…
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April 29, 2008 I was in the Big Apple, working on my memoir. I was super excited to go to see one of my favorite authors, Augusten Burroughs, do a reading of his new book, A Wolf at the Table, but the night had other plans.
I flagged down a cab in front of my hotel and plopped down in the backseat. The sweaty, agitated driver made a weird grunting sound— then barked something at me.
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About ten years ago, Tim McGraw hosted Saturday night Live. That's one of the most sentimental TV shows to me. Growing up, my dad loved to watch it, and we always watched it together. Seeing him laugh, along with my mom, made me so happy.
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“Poison and Wine” by the Civil Wars is my favorite song my husband #ChrisLindsey ever wrote for me. I remember the day it happened— there was a writer's retreat (when a group of songwriters show up and get split into groups and write in random combinations. It's kind of like speed dating, except you come out with a song.
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I could write a book about the crazy shit I've gone through while writing my book, Talking to the Sky. It's been a 13 year soul-testing, heart-wrecking, mind-bending journey through the process.
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I hate punctuation… I'd kick it's little ass if I could. Punctuation has been FFF-ing up my life up for over thirty years.
I got my first diary on Christmas Eve when I was eight years old— the same night, my dad shot himself. From then on, I wrote endlessly… a stream of consciousness… using my own little flow of dots and dashes.
As a kid, we moved constantly. I changed schools 8 or 9 times before fifth grade — so I missed compound sentences, comma splices, and conjunctions completely.
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