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Check out today’s website updates! Good news (2 events!) posted on the sidebar, and new announcements of forthcoming articles (including a potential cover story!) posted beneath the main photo. [...]

Correction. Three things will keep me from going insane during this brief set back in ankle history, and the third thing arrived in the mail today (well, yesterday, but I didn’t check it until [...]

Two things will save me from insanity during this next three and a half days of isolation and using the crutches again. 1. My Gaiam ball chair. Not familiar with this heavenly product? View it [...]

Yesterday, the biggest sales in the history of the craft school coffeehouse. At lunchtime, every seat indoors and out is taken, and the upper deck of the craft house has customers waiting for [...]

It’s raining on the mountain and raining in the valley, raining on the ridge tops and raining in the heavens. On the 13 mile drive home after women’s singing night up at the coffeehouse, thick [...]

Tonight, back on Fork Mountain. PD calls and needs help taking care of the animals while she is away. Like a good neighbor, she also asks about my ankle. I explain the truck situation and she [...]

There is nothing quite like being loved and being missed. Picture Norm walking into Cheers. Imagine Ichiro at bat in Safeco field. I walk into the coffeehouse and it is all smiles, all around and [...]

Said truck decides everything from here on out, including the utter refusal to start this afternoon when I have the good intention of driving down the mountain and into town to vacuum and clean [...]

It has been decided that I need the truck for a minimum of one more week, to save my ankle the strain and danger of hiking up 1/2 mile of washed out, steep, gravel road in the dark after being on [...]

The phone line keeps cutting in and out so it’s hard to maintain a connection online. National Weather Service says up to 70 mph winds, severe thunderstorms and lighting, and “stay [...]