Um, so I may have forgot to mention that I’m doing a reading and signing at the Jackson Coffee Co. on Mechanic St. this coming Tuesday (Feb 2) from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
One of my stunned-to-learn-I’m-an-author-co-workers from two doors down just emailed everyone this really great and gracious email spreading the news because apparently I am deficient [...]
Sad news.
One of our students, who my husband coached, was shot and killed this week.
The investigation is still under way, but it is safe to say it will touch the lives of other students.
Sadder news.
The town has clamped up; jaws wired shut.
My students say its because the police mess things up.
They think crimes on the [...]
Are you in the holiday spirit?
Even the prisoners set a pre-holiday bonfire they weren’t supposed to. Whoops.
Ahhh, Jackson.
Come one, come all.
Merry Christmas.
(This content automatically feeds from sarahcunningham.org, the web home of author Sarah Cunningham. Sarah’s next book, a memoir called Picking Dandelions, will be released February 1st, 2010. It is now available to be pre-ordered [...]
Jackson is not a metropolis, let’s be clear.
But it has some features (the state prison, for example) that sometimes cast a big-city shadow over our smaller-scale city.
Monday, a taxi-driver was stabbed within a mile radius of where I live and work.
I try to hold onto the headline–to realize it is not just a statistic about [...]
The TV networks make a killing pitting people against challenges to see who will survive.
In real life, however, survival…? Not quite so entertaining.
Jackson, also affectionately known as Prison City, is its own survival challenge. (Read “News From Prison City” in the topics to the right if you haven’t been following.)
Here’s a recap:
There’s no boom for [...]
People sometimes ask me if I am afraid to teach at my school. They say it with wide concerned eyes, like they imagine me dodging sniper fire in the hallways. (This has yet to be the case.)
I’d be foolish not to recognize that a classroom situation can turn dangerous. But I also keep in mind that all [...]
Some of you are following the economic meltdown known as Michigan.
According to the Business Journal (and just about everyone in economic realms), the three weakest states (economically) in the U.S. are Nevada, Michigan and Arizona.
Here is the BACKBREAKER of it all. Michigan ranked 51st out of all 50 states. Yes, that’s right. 51st. They included [...]
As some of you know, my current project* is about change–or more specifically, why humans can’t afford not to change.Given this current tag line in my life, its hard not to be drawn by prostitute-turned-soccer-mom sorts of stuff like this.The story is plucked from the life of Jaime Taylor, who…little known SAU fact**…was in the [...]
These blogs come to you from Jackson–a city stuck between U of M and Michigan State, not to be confused with the sound-a-like Mississippi version. We have no charming southern drawl here.
Some of you are realizing right now–as you read–that you have never been to Jackson. A crying shame too. You have not seen our [...]
