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Peak leaf season is the most dangerous time of year for me to drive on the road. Forget snow – I either don’t drive at all or the freeze isn’t bad enough. But give me burnt orange hillsides, [...]

My customers love me and I love them. Dora bursts through the doors: “I need you!” Her voice is elated yet grasping as she runs behind the counter to give me a hug. And as if on cue, I know [...]

Health comes first.The plague of stuffy noses and fatigue has hit the craft school.Must rest now, for the sake of all future sentences to come.Will not get sick.Will, in fact, endure.

The phone rings at 6:30am after I have had only five hours’ sleep. The Amos Lee concert still rings in my ears and at first I am confused, groping for the phone across the hardwood floor of the [...]

Sarah and I drive to BigCity, NC to see Amos Lee at a small venue downtown. There are about 150 people there for the show on a Monday night and Sarah and I look at each other with shock and [...]

So everything goes well. In fact, it is one of the best dates I’ve ever been on, and it lasts until the next day and still now, Sunday, I am watching it all replay in my mind’s eye. Maybe it was [...]

The day is eager and honest and undulating and always, lulled back to the stanzas of Stanley Kunitz’s famed poem, The King of the River. I am moved to tears by the recording I have of Kunitz [...]

Joel, who will henceforth be called Parker, comes into the coffeehouse and looks at me and says, “Surprise me.” “Caffeine or no caffeine?” I ask, leaning into the counter. Oh those green eyes. [...]

I was out the door a little after 6am this morning, wool cap and hiking boots on, guided through the pre-dawn solely by intuition and the light of the waning moon. I walked a mile down the loop, [...]

Hollis and I have started carpooling to work at the craft school – a convenience that saves us each $25 a month, sometimes up to $50. Today he drove us in his second vehicle, a two-passenger [...]