by Ronna | Jun 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
We were sure we had plenty of time to change terminals at O’Hare as we lollygagged to the international security gate until we rounded a corner and joined the horde of people bunched together in a white hallway packed with strollers, backpacks, drunken businessmen in... 
by Ronna | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
I had an hour to or so to kill before class. I dawdled over lunch, Tuscan white beans in tomato sauce and tomato, onion, and oregano salad with a short pour of cold white wine. The lingering flavors were mine alone, no one to share them with, no one to share the empty... 
by Ronna | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Journey to Italy The pandemic is over, so they say. Or so we are all behaving, traveling around the globe naked-faced. Despite getting Covid again two weeks before leaving for Florence. Cramped into a series of airplane seats listening to snippets of conversation that... 
by Ronna | May 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few years ago I published my memoir of growing up as a United Pentecostal preacher’s kid (The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid). Its a fairly harrowing tale in a lot of ways and I chose not to sugarcoat my story. I am convinced that no one... 
by Ronna | Jul 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
A friend and fellow writer from my former hometown writing group has released her memoir, Straight Enough and I gotta tell you, this book kicked my ass. The lengths we will go to to deny ourselves, the stranglehold of fear and ego, the twisted mindfuck of...
