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In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir

An elegiac account of survival despite being born poor, female, and cloistered, Bobi’s testament is one of hope for all vulnerable populations.

2020

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Bobbi Conn
Bobbi Conn

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Apr 29

Let Me Tell You a Story

Home is a state of the mind, a place of the heart — Life was different in our holler, I came to learn. And we were definitely living in a holler, not a hollow like you might read about in the dictionary or see on a fancy map. Merriam-Webster’s will tell you it’s a small valley or basin. The dictionary can also tell…

Home

4 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story
Let Me Tell You a Story
Home

4 min read


Jun 28, 2022

Granny’s Chicken and Dumplings

The secret ingredients of a timeless recipe — Growing up, my Granny Conn’s chicken and dumplings were my favorite dish. She always asked what I wanted for my birthday dinner, and that was the answer I gave her every time. I became a vegetarian at the age of fifteen and missed about three years’ worth of chicken and…

Food

6 min read

Granny’s Chicken and Dumplings
Granny’s Chicken and Dumplings
Food

6 min read


Feb 3, 2022

What My Father Wouldn’t Clean

And all the things children will pick up along the way — After he started taking pills in earnest, my dad was pretty concerned about cleanliness and swept the porch constantly. Or maybe he was just wrestling with the demons that inevitably reawakened every time the pills wore off — he always told me that the Lortabs he snorted were the poor…

Fathers

4 min read

What My Father Wouldn’t Clean
What My Father Wouldn’t Clean
Fathers

4 min read


Jan 14, 2022

Bringing My Daughter Back to My Mother in the Appalachian Mountains

When past, present, and future collide You’re driving down a two-lane divided highway. The heat of an August day surrounds you; kudzu chokes the road, threatening to spill into your path. The wet air hangs from the sky. It’s Tennessee. You’re singing along with your daughter and the radio. She…

Motherhood

4 min read

Bringing My Daughter Back to My Mother in the Appalachian Mountains
Bringing My Daughter Back to My Mother in the Appalachian Mountains
Motherhood

4 min read


Jan 9, 2022

My Grandmother’s Gift to Me

And the care we gave each other — One night, I dreamt that my granny was lying on her couch and I was sitting beside her, and I knew in my dream that she was dying. It was the couch in her living room, where she napped after fixing me Sunday supper for the first twelve years of…

Grandmother

4 min read

My Grandmother’s Gift to Me
My Grandmother’s Gift to Me
Grandmother

4 min read


Jan 4, 2022

What We Talk About When We Talk About God

Prayers from a childhood lost — While I was still in middle school and for a short time in high school, I attended the youth-group meetings at our church every Wednesday night. Granny would be upstairs, having Bible study, singing and praying, while I was downstairs with a room full of kids and an adult or…

Childhood

2 min read

What We Talk About When We Talk About God
What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Childhood

2 min read


Dec 22, 2021

All the Joys of Middle School

Notes from the tenth circle of Hell — I had a crush on one boy in the fourth and fifth grades, the son of one of our elementary school teachers, though I was never in her class. I adored him and, at the same time, learned to despise him because his family had money, according to my dad…

Middle School

4 min read

All the Joys of Middle School
All the Joys of Middle School
Middle School

4 min read


Dec 14, 2021

(Broken) Home for the Holidays

A ghost of Christmas past — Growing up, I learned that although holidays were the best thing ever, there was also a very real chance that something would go wrong anytime we gathered for a family meal or opened presents. We went to Grandma Wright’s on Christmas Eve, but we went to Granny Conn’s house for…

5 min read

(Broken) Home for the Holidays
(Broken) Home for the Holidays

5 min read


Nov 23, 2021

The Darlings That Lived

A series of excerpts from my memoir, In the Shadow of the Valley, as I share some of my favorite snippets. From the Prologue, and shared with permission: Life was different in our holler, I came to learn. And we were definitely living in a holler, not a hollow like…

Home

4 min read

The Darlings That Lived
The Darlings That Lived
Home

4 min read


Jun 24, 2021

The Mountains That Made Me

Our hearts live in these hills, bound to these hollers — The Appalachians are among the oldest mountains on Earth, born of powerful upheavals within the terrestrial crust and sculpted by the ceaseless action of water upon the surface. — Encyclopedia Britannica Those mountains still stand, mostly intact, though smaller now than they must have been in the Precambrian era, or…

Home

10 min read

The Mountains That Made Me
The Mountains That Made Me
Home

10 min read

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Author of In the Shadow of the Valley (memoir) and A Woman in Time (historical fiction). Order now! https://amzn.to/3Es7JzH

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