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,…
Category Word and Images
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…
In Fits and Starts and Finally…
Blue Ridge Counry Morning I won’t try to finesse this. I’ll just tell it straight out: Given a continuance of what passes for good health and wellness of joint and limb and a smiling-on by the muse and the nymphs…
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…
Burning Heaven: Poems by Jim Minick
 I’m pleased to learn that my friend Jim Minick has had a most productive visitation of the Muse, most recently evidenced by the release of his second book of poetry this year, Burning Heaven. I was priviledged some months…
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…
Things: A New Printer
The story of stuff is a tale I enter reluctantly but far too often. Try as I might to swim against the current of temptation and want, I will yield to the flow of consumerism and rationalize that I must…
Eternity in an Hour
I feel it, don’t you–the turning inward that comes in these shorter days? The earth and I tilt away from heat and light, from the exuberance of summer, and now past the decline of fall, I settle here in the…
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…