Southern Writers Magazine has published a blog of mine in its Suite T section: “Pilgrimage with the Purpose Based Novel.”

It’s an updated rendering of a Southern gal’s journey from the home of the Grand Ole Opry to a career in lands she’d only dreamed of visiting. Inevitable, I suppose, that I did as I’d always done: tried to make sense of overwhelming changes through writing.

I’d tried telling it first in From Y’all to Assalamu Alaikum: A Southern Baptist Discovers the Middle East.

The article is a shorter version, which means maybe I’ve learned at least something along the way.