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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 [...]

There is something graceful in the silence after the last pages of a book. The weight of the closed hardcover in your hands, the pages a little more worn than when you picked it up, the [...]

When the body is still, the rest of the world can look like an action-packed movie. A few days ago it was the doe I watched from the porch. Yesterday, I observed a woodchuck foraging through the [...]