Category Word and Images

Gathering to Go

Looks to be a nice day to travel–a mere 2.5 hours–from the ONE-STOP town and county of Floyd to the far busier and busier than usual University town of Charlottesville. The Banff Film Festival was in town this week, too,…

Traveling Hopefully and Not Alone

The train has left the station and there are a few faces peeking out of the coach car windows. Welcome aboard, and I trust the destination will be worth the view along the way. Many thanks to the first readers…

Nothing Ordinary

I know this from my photographer’s experience: any image I take is one of a kind. Each composition–in light or in words–is unique. The light will never be that color from that angle on that exact configuration of barn, tree…

What’s Blogging Worth?

  Question: what kind of bear is best? No, that’s not it–been watching too much of The Office. Here’s the question: When wife comes home from work and asks “what did you get done today?” does writing two blog posts…

The Vision Thing

That’s a borrowed phrase–as some may remember–used to describe a perceived deficit during GB the Elder’s reign. He lacked any clear port to steer toward in his administration. Unfortunately, the current Potentate the Younger suffers no such lack of vision.…

Ripples on the Big Pond

I am grateful to Jerry Haines for bringing Slow Road Home into the view of readers in the DC area and beyond in his column, Road Reads, in the Washington Post Travel Section. The brief review is online now (you…

Some Things That Start With S

Speech to Text Update: I’ve been training Dragon naturally speaking for couple of months now, and it’s finally starting to get a little smarter. I’m using it for almost all my e-mail, which saves me thousands of keystrokes everyday. (I’m…

Open Book

Finally, Google Book Search will carry you to a page where parts of Slow Road Home can be viewed. You can see the front and back cover in color. You can peruse the table of contents. And you can see…

Book-ends

I feel the first stirrings out of hibernation after a long winter of oblivion to writing, speaking, thinking about Slow Road Home or whatever might come next. I’ll have at least two events between now and the middle of April…

A New Perspective

I don’t have many photos of this place where Goose Creek and Nameless Creek come together. And yet, this is one of my favorite places on our land, visually, even though it is very near the road. (You can just…