Jennifer McGaha
Author
Description
"When Jennifer [McGaha] discovered that she and her husband owed back taxes--a lot of back taxes--her world changed. Now desperate to save money, they foreclosed on their beloved suburban home and moved their family to a one-hundred-year-old cabin in a North Carolina holler. Soon enough, Jennifer's life began to more closely resemble the lives of her Appalachian ancestors than the life she experienced in her upper-middle-class upbringing. But what...
Author
Formats
Description
"When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. 'Fifty-five,' her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life, some deeper way of knowing from this vantage point. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing...
Author
Description
When you stray from a trail and strike out into the woods, you are bushwhacking. The term implies a physical thrashing about, pushing past branches, slicing through thickets, leaping across downed trees, but it also implies a certain fortitude and resilience to seek places unknown. In “Bushwhacking”, Jennifer McGaha borrows the term, likening it to what writers do when faced with the equally daunting blank page. Exploring the wilderness of your...