Rebecca Dwight Bruff's Blog

Five things I'm (hopefully) learning:

Hope inhabits that sacred place where we acknowledge the world’s realities and choose to reach through the darkness to access the Light.

On February 23, 1915 the Honorable Robert Smalls died on the front porch of his home, the house on Prince Street behind which he’d been born enslaved. Trouble the Water was inspired by Smalls’ extraordinary life, and I hope the book honors his spirit and his character. An early manuscript of Trouble the Water included […]

If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently? A sociologist asked this question to a group of people 95 years old and older: “If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?” Their responses fell into three general categories. People with 9+ decades of […]

People often ask me, “What are your favorite books?” or “What are you reading now?” and then we dive into a great conversation about the books we’ve read, and what we like and what we think. Great fun, these discussions! Since the “favorite book” category is way too big, I’ll start with some of my […]

Maybe that's why questions leave a mark?

Every person has a story; every story can be seen from infinite perspectives, as subtle as the turning of a kaleidoscope or as profound as the opening of eyes.

Every life is a story, infinite stories actually. Each life – every one of us! – is a drop or a pebble or a splash in the vast ocean of life. Every life, every person, every story affects another, many others. How our story affects the world is our legacy. Most of the time though, […]

A pair of osprey live nearby, nesting on a high platform at the river’s edge. They’ve probably been there longer than we’ve been here, as they usually mate for life and return to the same nesting area each year. We’ve watched them collect sticks and Spanish moss to renovate their nest each spring. Sometimes we […]

A few early pics from a memorable evening. (photo credits: Donna Bearden) More to come!