Rebecca D. Martin's essays have been published in Proximity Magazine, Art House America, and Relief Journal, among others, and she is a contributing writer at Makes You Mom. She hails from Georgia, bu
Our dining room table is a salvaged antique store find. It is worn and old,
weighty and substantial, and in need of a good refinishing job. Vintage
mid-century, its peculiarity is a pair
Six and some odd years ago, I downsized. I’d grown up in one of the biggest
Atlanta suburbs, and gone to school in the small city of Athens, Georgia. It was
time
If this were Facebook, you’d read that “Rebecca Martin is happy Agatha Christie
was so prolific.” Summer is for detective stories. Every year, just about the
same time, the air gets hot,
As we pulled out of the drive, the dashboard clock read 5:18a.m. It was dark in
Ohio, and we were bound homeward. While the baby slept strapped into the
backseat, the