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Dad started an Airstream journal, keeping track of our expenses and repairs and listing questions or concerns as they arise. Of course, he knows a lot more about all of this than I do and [...]

It’s the little things, right? Today we got both front burners working on the gas stove! The rear burners work but we need to run to the hardware store for a small part first. I finished [...]

Hardly any of us Schultz’s slept a wink last night, eagerly awaiting the arrival of our new-to-us 1970 Airstream Sovereign. We hired Bobby DeCola of Burnsville, NC to do the tow and he sure [...]

In addition to documenting the AIRSTREAM saga, this week I’m promoting Monthly Fiction as a gift idea or general purchase to help support my writing life on the road. 12 stories written by [...]

Dad and I worked on tree number two this weekend, a standing, dead maple that folks usually call a “widowmaker” for its likeliness to fall at any moment and kill somebody. Hollowed [...]

Sometimes you pursue one thing and just as you put it into action, a parallel path you’ve had your eye on all along suddenly converges with your own. Abstract, I know, but it’s the [...]

Taking the first tree didn’t quite feel like cutting an artery, like I thought it might. It was a hemlock, after all, and a hemlock in the Blue Ridge sadly also means a woolly adelgid [...]

The other part of coming home is training full time in Okinawan Shuri Ryu Karate and Shintoyoshinkai Jiu Jitsu. I haven’t written about my passion for martial arts in quite some time, so [...]

To put a stake in the ground. It’s a simple act, yet imbued with so much meaning. Today, after several years of casual discussions, Dad and I walked down to the southeast edge of my [...]

Hot off the press:  The third printing of my nonfiction chapbook Lost Crossings: A Contemplative Look at Western North Carolina’s Historic Swinging Footbridges Lost Crossings was [...]