Sophfronia’s Blog
Kind Words
A blog about what I find amazing, smart, beautiful, or just plain fun.
The Best Laid Plans
"The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley..." --Robert Burns, "To a Mouse" Oh yes…that planning thing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes both in the same day. Tuesday proved to [...]
About Faith: What I Want You to Know
Sometimes an interview question hits home. When it does the question becomes much more than a question. It's a request for depth, for clarity, for the utmost authenticity. It wants to know what's inside you that you can offer up with the most light possible. It's asking what you want [...]
A Diet for the Soul
Can you pity a bad/mean/evil character? This question came up in a book group discussion of my novel Unforgivable Love. I responded by quoting Albus Dumbledore in the second Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film, where he tells Harry to pity the living and most of all pity [...]
My Favorite Books of 2017
I'm grateful for Goodreads. Before this lovely book-oriented social media site came into the world my reading life was pretty scattered. Sometimes I tried to keep written books lists but most of the time I really didn't know how much or how little I'd read in any given year. When [...]
The Voice of Unforgivable Love: Adenrele Ojo
I’ve long harbored a dream of having an audiobook version of a novel I’ve written. Daddy never learned how to read and he often listened to spoken word recordings of sermons. I remember well the voice of the Reverend C.L. Franklin (singer Aretha Franklin’s father) filling our car via the [...]
A Walk in Harlem
The word Harlem sounds to me like a song and it slips through my lips like that—easy and familiar. I’m often asked if I ever lived in Harlem and the answer is no. I lived in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, about 40 blocks south. But I took the subway north [...]
Curating the Awst Press Anniversary Essay Series
Recently I had the honor of being asked by Awst Press to curate, along with the author Susanna Childress, its annual essay series. Awst is an independent literary publisher located in Austin, TX. Awst is Welsh for August, the month in which the press was founded, and the essay series takes place [...]
The Music of Unforgivable Love
This lazy summer day, for me, brings to mind a moment in my novel Unforgivable Love when Val Jackson, enjoying after-dinner cocktails with Elizabeth Townsend and his Aunt Rose, puts on a record he's purchased for his aunt. It's a new song by Ella Fitzgerald called "A Sunday Kind of Love" [...]
