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It is the end of an era. Starbucks has purchased Coffee People Coffee. I’ll say it again for Lindsay, who no doubt by now has fallen onto the floor in fits: Starbucks has purchased Coffee People [...]

In the past fourteen months of the single life, I have figured a few things out. 1. I do not want to play pretend girlfriend. 2. I do not want a married man. (Really, at the time, I could only [...]

[Remember, the new blog rules allow for occasional forays into the poetic…] Fictional story in poetry.Something with longing and love.150+ words, 20 minutes or less.Ready, set, go! Untitled Even [...]

This morning, fifty-eight degrees in the loft. That’s still luxurious, but the point is that the temperature dropped by twelve degrees indoors over the course of eight hours. Thirty-two degrees [...]

I awoke to a wider view of the mountains through my loft window. Already, the falling leaves open holes in the forest canopy, bringing the mountains closer. Pink light reflected off a rim of [...]

How quickly we experience a change of heart. Picture this: A late afternoon warmth settles temporarily into the mountains and up at Joe’s farm, I am hard at work turning soil to prepare for cover [...]

I am waist-deep in morning mist that hugs the road, my jogging shoes crunching dew-kissed gravel beneath my feet. Already, I feel the flirtation of winter in the mountains. Rounding the bend in [...]

At the banquet dinner for the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, a local minister enters stage right and steps up to the podium to lead us in prayer. On cue, the roomful of nearly two hundred [...]

Kathryn Stripling Byer’s reading and talk affirms my understanding of how limitless our imaginations can be. She describes the psychic landscape of her own mind as the well-spring for her [...]

Hello Planet!Friday and Saturday is the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival!Are you going? Yes. Books. Writers. Readers. Mountains. Sunshine like glitter on turning maple leaves. The Poet [...]