Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. Writer ~ Writing Mentor ~ Editor ~ Morgan Driver

Writing Mentor

Welcome to my website. I am the author of She Left Nothing In Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of 19th Century Women's Diaries (University of Tennessee Press, 2001) and the editor of Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1884 (University of Tennessee Press, 2009). You can find out more about my work on these diaries by visiting embreediaries.com. My essays have appeared on insidehighered.com, in the Austin-American Statesman and, most recently, in YogaPlus Magazine. If you have been redirected here from my "Writing Mentor" website, please check out my new pages on mentoring and manuscript services.

I am beginning work on my next book project (tentatively titled "Horse and Writer") which I hope you will enjoy reading about in the blog below. This website is best viewed with Firefox or Safari. MS Explorer manages to make the photos too large.

Legacies: Update

amywink December 22nd, 2009

Here we go. We don’t know who the paint is, but that is my Dad:

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And the more famous Bob and Shorty make appearances with my Dad and uncle:

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Soggy Pastures

amywink December 20th, 2009

The ground is so saturated from the heavy rains this fall that after even just a light rain, the puddles just grow. We have standing water everywhere.

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Windy offers her opinion of the pasture conditions, and I have to agree with her. . .

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Retraction

amywink December 20th, 2009

After looking at the photos I posted previously, I have to retract the descriptions in the earlier post. We think that the photo I *thought* was my grandmother is actually a family friend. And we think that the photos I thought were of my Dad are actually of his cousin Freddie. But my Dad does remember those horses, Shorty and Bob, and they did belong to my great-grandfather, Edwin Henry Wink.

But here’s a definite photo of my grandmother on horseback:

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And for sheer entertainment, this is a shot of my grandfather yucking it up with a friend:

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