Poems, stories, and reflections
. . . and a thing called love. An old adage: “A southerner is never a stranger.” So true. Early in the New Year, I jumped on FB and posted a video demo of how to paint furniture with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. A longtime friend commented that she had just painted a chest in […]
MoreWhatever your faith, there is a season of goodwill and the love of family on holy days. “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year,” Ebenezer Scrooge promised in A Christmas Carol. Well written, Mr. Dickens. If I could keep that promise, then I would feel humanity to […]
MoreAn 18th-century French botanist trekked 8,000 miles of Appalachia, foraging for unclassified flora. Along the way, he plucked a fresh, furled fiddlehead here and picked another one there. Fast forward more than two centuries later, and the Fiddleheads do the plucking and picking. In 2009, four guys jamming in Dahlonega, Georgia, finished the night as […]
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