Author Archives: Doug Cumming

I’ve let too many emails pile up in my Outlook — thousands upon thousands. So I’ve been deleting them by the score these last few days. I’m up to the year 2009. But I won’t do a wholesale delete (even … Continue reading →

We are leaking all over the place To relieve the knot inside Of the pressure of needing more space Lest in captive heat it gets fried. Call it soul. It goes out of its mind (I think it must be) … Continue reading →

Last Thanksgiving, our house was filled with fiddle music. Old-time fiddling spilled out of the road-worn fiddles of two of William’s friends, Hunter Riccio and Cyrus Carawan. It was a beautiful sound, as if the fog had come rolling down … Continue reading →

The spring air filled the car as I drove through the dark neighborhoods around Emory University, gracious curving roads of stately homes and lawns like fairways. It was as if the car needed to gulp that flowery night air to … Continue reading →

I remember reading the appalling story last month in the Roanoke (Va.) Times before leaving for Ireland: Nuns at an Irish orphanage during some three decades of the mid-20th century had discarded about 800 dead babies and children in unmarked … Continue reading →

Teaching for the month of July in Northern Ireland city of Amagh. I highly recommend this course for journalism majors. I’ll be teaching it again next year, I’m sure. It’s with ieiMedia. http://ieimedia.com/ Here are the posts I’ve contributed so … Continue reading →

DAY FIVE – The prophet Jonah, after his remarkable success at converting Nineveh, spent two days outside the city thinking things over under a tree. On the first day he stayed cool in his hut and under the shade of … Continue reading →

Time spent with my childhood family draws me back into that cartoon simplicity, the way my younger brother Walter’s caricatures draw people into their absurd (but all too true) versions. Mama takes the measure of my face, standing in the … Continue reading →