Category: North Carolina

An excerpt from todays “The Writer’s Almanac”. Go read the whole poem or listen to Garrison Kieillor read it… The Writer’s Almanac from American Public Media:“Map A hill, a farm,A

The rain I spoke about on Monday really caused problems on Tuesday. You have to understand, the rain stopped on Monday evening before sundown but the waters kept rising. My

You really have to enjoy rain when you live on the SE coast of Texas. It doesn’t rain all the time, as a matter of fact, we’ve been through a

Michael Pollan had an article in the New York Times that spells out many reasons for locally grown food. Writing about the recent E. coli contamination he had this to

About the only tree around here that is beginning to show fall colors is this little maple in the yard next door. I used a bit of flash to bring

My Grandpa Sewell always thought 13 was his lucky number. His place in Orchard, TX was 2.13 acres by deed. The “ranch” he bought before he retired was 213 acres…maybe

It seems the morning email list is beginning to follow a pattern. The first couple of emails concern my blog traffic (and yes I do look), followed by my My-Cast

I read this phrase way down at the end of an interesting post… the Contrary Goddess: This is me, this is who I am: “If it were not illegal, I