Talking Back: Stories of the Big Hair and Pantyhose Years

by Dee Thompson

Paperback

Published December 2, 2023

About the author

I earned a BA in Drama and an MA in Creative Writing and I have worked as a freelance writer, a journalist, and a paralegal. My essays have been included in the award-winning books Call Me Okaasan [2009] and The Divinity of Dogs [2013]. I have written a number of novels and they are all on Amazon: Ghosts in the Garden City [2019], Leaf Season [2019], Heart of My Own Heart [2020], Return to Marietta [2022], Dancing in the Wreckage [2023] and The Wedding Conspiracy [2023]. Additionally, I’ve published a cookbook, What’s for Dinner, Mom? and I compiled and edited a posthumous memoir of my mother’s writings, Singing to the Cows [2021]. In December 2023 I published a memoir called Talking Back, Stories from the Big Hair and Pantyhose Years, and it’s available on Amazon. It includes a lot of stories about my first 15 years as a paralegal. I also wrote a guide for new paralegals, Paralegal 411: Tips, Tricks and Timesavers for the Litigation Paralegal. I’ve published numerous articles online and in print, and I’ve been writing a personal blog, The Crab Chronicles, since 2005.