By David Mahaffey September 6th, 2011 In the Carolina foothills words sit thick in the jaw. Vowels are long and flat, consonants rough, syllables sometimes inferred rather than enunciated. We shed our words slow, sometimes reconsidering them even as they slip from our lips. When I tell people I grew up in the rural South, one of the first things they ask is where my accent has gone. […] Continue Reading…
By David Mahaffey August 23rd, 2011 If you find me scratching among the weeds, like as not I am exhuming some loamy filament and trying to tell whether it’s yours or mine. […] Continue Reading…
By David Mahaffey August 9th, 2011 You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations.
– from “I Like For You To Be Still,” Pablo Neruda
The way my family tells it, I was a sugar fiend of a child, so hopped up on Coca-Cola and […] Continue Reading…
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What’s All This, Then? Hi, I’m David Mahaffey. I’m an editor and a geek, a faithful skeptic who likes to be proven wrong. Writing is the breath I take between thinking and understanding. I’d rather tell you a long, mostly true story than bore us all with a straight answer. Welcome to my blog.
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