Author Jim Reed

RED CLAY DIARY // WHEN YOU WISH UPON A BOOK When you invest all your dreams in writing a book, you never expect to receive the Ultimate Review—you know, the review of all reviews, the review that shows...

ARE YOU REALLY THERE? // AND AM I ACTUALLY PRESENT HERE? It’s taken me years to almost adjust to the fact that when somebody seems to be in my presence, they often are not. I walk into a fast-food...

PEE WEE'S PLAY SUIT // I HAD ONE BEFORE HE DID After many decades of living, loving and getting by, I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody feels cool at least once in a lifetime — maybe even...

Sometimes a writer’s great fear is that the keyboard sitting there right under the fingers will turn blank, useless. I know would-be writers who were so traumatized by the blankness of it all that they...