Elaine Neil Orr - Author and Novelist http://booksbywomen.org/author/elaineneilorr/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:50:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Living and Writing and Faith: Dispatch from Self-Isolation, Day 30 https://booksbywomen.org/living-and-writing-and-faith-dispatch-from-self-isolation-day-30/ https://booksbywomen.org/living-and-writing-and-faith-dispatch-from-self-isolation-day-30/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2020 07:53:05 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30404 All I want to do is have coffee with my parents under a shade tree. It’s day 30 of self-isolating in the era of Covid-19. I’m sixty-five and immunosuppressed (a double-organ transplant patient) so I started drawing back during my spring break from N.C. State. The first week, I went out for groceries and once […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/living-and-writing-and-faith-dispatch-from-self-isolation-day-30/feed/ 5 30404 Taking Back the House By Elaine Neil Orr https://booksbywomen.org/taking-back-the-house-by-elaine-neil-orr/ https://booksbywomen.org/taking-back-the-house-by-elaine-neil-orr/#respond Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:41:36 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21976 The year I attended first grade, I lived with my family in a two-story house (the style is called a foursquare) in the West End neighborhood of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  The house already seemed a bit run down.  It had probably been a rental for some years.  Among my most vivid memories is a small […]

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