LeeAnna Tatum
Bio
Writer, entrepreneur, animal-lover, gardener, artist and traveler. I am passionate about leaving this world a better place when I'm gone then it was when I got here!
Stories (8/0)
Finding Laughter
Nathan settled comfortably into life at Esperanza. There was always plenty to do in a community that was having to build just about everything from the ground up. As an experienced mechanic, Nathan was in high demand and spent most of his time either repairing some machine or another, or training some of the young people in the community who had shown an aptitude or interest in learning mechanics.
By LeeAnna Tatum3 years ago in Fiction
Finding Time to Smell the Flowers
I found myself moving through more mountainous terrain. The Ozarks, I guessed. Didn’t know for sure. Blue and I had settled pretty quickly into something like routine. We’d camp a few days or more in places where game was plentiful. I’d smoke some of the meat to keep, and trade the rest.
By LeeAnna Tatum3 years ago in Fiction
Finding Friendship
I was on the move. The move to where, I didn't really know. I had first thought to stay put. Rebuild the house long abandoned and nearly destroyed. To stay where Papa would know to find me. To stay where home used to be and to hope it could maybe be something like home again.
By LeeAnna Tatum3 years ago in Fiction
Finding New Purpose
The man stepped off the dock, shifting the weight of his duffel higher across his back as he made his way through the crowds and the smoke. Both weighed heavily in the air he was forced to breathe in - the unpleasant mix of unwashed bodies and smoke from multiple lit fires and torches that were there to bring light rather than warmth.
By LeeAnna Tatum3 years ago in Fiction
Hope Rising
I arrived back home. If you could still call a place home that was mostly wreckage, barely recognizable from the pretty little house that lived in my faded memory; a place that was empty of life and hadn’t known love or peace or anything close to happiness in a very long time.
By LeeAnna Tatum3 years ago in Fiction
Family Food Traditions
Food brings people together. It carries memories. It connects through time and generations, across the miles. Food is not simply necessary to sustain life, but it is food and the traditions around it that sustain family bonds, build relationships and strengthen community.
By LeeAnna Tatum3 years ago in Families