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It’s a good sign when you’ve lived someplace for more than seven years and you still find yourself pulling over on the side of the road to look at something beautiful. Last month it was the Black [...]

If you had to pack your life-for-the-next-year into your car, which of the following means of making coffee would you pack. Choose only one: A)   SAECO Incanto Sirius espresso machine [...]

Life at the dojo has been full-bore these past few weeks. To prepare for my sankyo test (brown belt), I come an hour early on Tuesday and Thursday nights to train with Hanshi. Since his daughter [...]

Each day my momentum picks up speed: I am packing, sorting, selling, donating, and organizing my life for one-year on the road. The first 4 ½ months will be at Interlochen. After that, who knows. [...]

Heading up the driveway in my truck this afternoon, the folks who live at the bottom of the gravel road came out with some news. “They brought down two bears this morning,” said Bill. I knew what [...]

Two weeks ago, I was privileged enough to be recognized at an awards reception sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council. I received the Linda Flowers Literary Award for fiction and was [...]

[Sorry my posts have been in the morning rather than the night I compose them. I have had internet connection problems all week.] This time of year, I wake to the sunrise. With floor-to-ceiling [...]

In preparation for my upcoming sankyu (brown belt) test, Hanshi introduced me to the sai last week. This ancient martial weapon takes after an agricultural tool used for planting seeds. The long, [...]

Pepito, the French feral King of Fork Mountain, survived the inhospitable gash behind his right ear in addition to hunkering down through our first snow of the season. While it’s true that I have [...]

Sweet, Salty, ‘n’ Spicy Harvest Bake Today I baked one of my favorite fall feasts that also happens to be just about the easiest thing to throw together on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Using all [...]