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The air temperature is so balmy it’s a sin. Imagine wearing sandals in the absence of socks mid-January on the slopes of the highest mountains east of the Rockies. I could be wrong but I believe [...]

It only takes about thirty minutes of talking with Mia and I slip into a Southern accent that is neither my birthright or authentic. We are taking the afternoon to go to a Buddhist class together [...]

Everything about today has appealed to the senses. I woke to a rosy pink sunset across the face of the Black Mountains. In the loft of the big house, the bed faces this ancient range and I left [...]

I have been over pouring my tea all week. This is what happens when I get lustful and a man gets under my skin. I’ve walked into branches more than once – branches, mind you, that I previously [...]

The Peak of the Week on WNCW this evening was Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine,” so the album was played in its entirety on the air tonight. Born in 1977, Apple dropped out of high school at [...]

Paul Desmond’s “Take Ten” album is like a gentle sauna of sleep: soothing, soft, sophisticated. His jazz is the kind of music that doesn’t demand your attention when it’s on, but is sorely missed [...]

The silver, smiling moon is waxing its way to fullness and in the dim halo of its light, I can just make out the rest of its grey, round body. After several days of rain, with every creek in the [...]

Standing in line at the grocery store behind a woman who is hauling one large bunch of collard greens the size of a small child over each shoulder. Her five-year-old tugs at her heels, carrying [...]

I spent the afternoon babysitting one of my students, Sophia, who is five-years-old. Her favorite song is “On Top of Spaghetti,” and I know this ahead of time so I make sure to bring my guitar [...]

For once, I receive multiple invitations to New Year’s Eve parties. I choose the one that is just two miles down the mountain and a few hundred yards up river from where I live. Most of my [...]