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We are working on herb preparations in the outdoor kitchen up at Joe’s. While Joe instructs us, Edie manages the wood-fired cookstove for our tea water and her lunch of lentils and cous cous. She [...]

Today I finished a book, wrote a four-page essay, revised a ten page story, hiked two miles up White Oak Creek, and drove my trash to the convenience center.That’s enough labor for one [...]

I live and breathe Bob Dylan for the day. At the coffeehouse, I play the mix I made based on the playlist from his May 6th performance in BigCity, NC that Mia and I went to. Six, count them six, [...]

The public schools were let out early because the water was rising so quickly. No roads flooded down my neck of the South Toe River Valley but I parked on the bridge this morning to watch the [...]

[This post is inspired by1) Finishing William Kittredge’s memoir this afternoon, and2) My mysterious, anonymous, Missoula reader…] Oh, I remember Missoula. It wasn’t like we had no place better [...]