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The reality hits, then the exhaustion. Of course, there are already more stories to tell: 1. The story of visiting Al Onteroa’s office this Thursday morning, and how good it felt and how much [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Shane Darwent and Katey Schultz proudly present: LOST CROSSINGS.

Working, working, working on the website…Over 40 phone calls have been made and the fundraising letter has been proofed to go out tomorrow. Shane and I meet with Al in the morning to plead for [...]

Onward to the nitty-gritty: THE FUNDRAISING LETTER. The phone calls have been placed, the email addresses and permissions granted. If all goes well, we’ll email the following letter to [...]

Get ready, dear readers, for new adventures in footbridges this week. Call it Phase 3, call it begging on our knees, call it delusions of grandeur. When it’s all said and done, I can only hope we [...]

Gads! More soon…I swear…Balance seems beyond me these past few days.

Yet another “memoirist” has shat on the genre of creative nonfiction, leaving us all wondering how hard fact checking can actually be. Read this excerpt from an LA Times article , which quotes [...]

Oh, glory be! W is history! Obama is victory! And three cheers for Rev. Lowery!

Redbeard doesn’t snore. And his house is clean but lived in. He has an affinity for symmetry that is so embedded, he’s hardly aware of it. This is evidenced by his fridge magnets, wall hangings, [...]

It is Friday night and I am on a date with Redbeard. He’s super connected with local environmental non-profits and so received an invitation to this: The documentary, “Appalachia: A History [...]