I’m honored to have won the Harriett A. Rose Legacies Contest sponsored by the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY, for my memoir “Graduation.” The contest was judged by novelist/memoirist Claudia Love Mair, who said of my story: “This piece was finely crafted, with a beautiful, sustained tone. The narrator was sympathetic, and I connected with them from the first word until the last. Great job!”
The memoir is about my retirement as a professor of legal studies at Sullivan University and how it affects my understanding of who I am. All you young people out there may not know, but retirement’s a major life event, like divorce or death of a loved one. I’ve sent the piece out to some literary magazines for possible publication. Most magazines only accept unpublished work, which includes not published on a blog, so I’ll post the piece on my blog after it’s published.
