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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 [...]

Today involves the easiest, shortest drive of my 23-months (and counting) residency tour: the drive HOME. Farewell, VCCA! I wish every artist I know could come here and experience the magic. Stay [...]

Leaving is never easy, but I’m getting better at it. Goodbyes can still be hard. I often look inwards for answers. Did I reach my goals? Make good use of my time? Here’s the [...]

Last week I wrote about the Crawford Cemetery, high on a hill above Sweet Briar College. A few days following, I ran into an archeology professor while biking around campus and he told me how to [...]