Sarah E. Moffett

“Excuse me, friends, but did you know that less than forty-eight hours ago I was standing in the middle of several thousand corpses in a muddy mass grave in a tiny African country called Rwanda?”*
These were the words Gary A. Haugen wanted to tell his neighbors on a D.C. Metro bus in 1994. And the product […]

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Nothing like a hometown paper write up to make one feel important…or validated.  Particularly when said newspaper covers the geographical region of Leadville, Colorado (below), which is the home to several generations of Moffetts and shockingly the setting for part of my first book, Growing Up Moffett.  Prosaic, I know.

“Written with a good sense of […]

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Well, more like top 20, but then it was two Moffetts trying to narrow it down.
Top 20.  (Not in order of importance.)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
3. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (go to Haworth, England. You’ll get it.)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Marquez (the banned genius)
5. End […]

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And I don’t mean after you’ve had one too many rounds of eggnog.

Sans eggnog, I learned that the world of Douglas Firs do sing after I showed up at First Baptist of Alexandria’s annual Living Christmas Tree production. According to the injured choir member that parked it in the pew next to us, the seven […]

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What is art?
Snoozing, aren’t you.
I generally am too when someone pulls that gem out of the air. Then I heard an answer in the most unlikely place.

If only all of life’s mysteries were discoverable in the midst of a rock opera complete with laser show, faux-snow, and pyrotechnician’s dream.
Paul O’Neill, one of the founders of […]

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And then there was only one…

Not THAT one…her new one.  And the only one available for sale.  J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard was snatched up yesterday by Amazon.com at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. As discussed here before, Rowling’s book was set to start at $62,000, and only expected to […]

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“Think globally-eat locally” is the slogan of one of Old Town Alexandria’s best restaurants. And since this particular restaurant (a) has a literary based name, and (b) did not kick me out, I am sharing one of my favorite Old Town secrets. Bilbo Baggins.
Walking into the restaurant off Queen Street, you would never expect the […]

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Recently I discovered the wonderful world of Suzan Charlton, who “is a professional cartoonist . . . rumored to practice law as a hobby for a major Washington D.C. law firm.” Sounds vaguely familiar . . . Anyway, she is witty, sarcastic, charming, and endearing in her depiction of legal idiosyncrasies. (Excuse the redundancy.) […]

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Drinking and reporters.  A dangerous combination. 
As many of you know, my first book was published this past April. Sixteen weekends of dehydration, a chronic case of road fatigue, and a twenty stop book tour later, I am in the throes of wrapping up a legal year while preparing for the virtual book tour. The DCist found my […]

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Ever heard of a “Living Christmas Tree”? I hadn’t, and that’s saying something as the product of a devoutly Baptist upbringing. Then I walked into First Baptist of Alexandria this past Sunday. The Everest of Christmas Trees had sprouted up from the stage, expanding the entire width of the choir loft and was topped with […]

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