Smokey Mountain Breakdown

Sometimes a curse is called for. You know what I mean. An invocation to the PTB to bring misfortune upon an evil-doer. It basically does jac...

The problem with dropping back into the world after dropping out is that you will never be quite the same. It changes you, making you a bit ...

The God of Blackberries requires child sacrifice, blood and scratches, owies laid open, knees scraped and elbows skinned. Walk into the bram...

Did everyone have a fun Fourth? Have your fill of hotdogs? Damn, I loves me a skinless Nathan's, know what I mean? Me? I spent a pretty ...

I'm sitting sewing and watching the second season of Dexter. The rain is pelting down hard and the dogs are laid out sleeping in that wa...

June has sort of snuck up on me. The rabbits are everywhere and bold as Jehovah's Witnesses coming into the yard to bring me their good ...

about Tennessee doctors. The most ironically named healthcare organization in the world, Mercy Health Partners , has granted me an audience ...

My friend, Brad Green, asked me to submit something to The Legendary , a journal he's joined as editor. Brad has one of those strong, f...

God, I love Spike TV--I can't be the only woman who'd rather watch Spike than Lifetime, am I? Anyway, I've become addicted to De...

Our first true, wet, Tennessee spring in two years has set the forest afire with flowers. Far up in the reaches, beyond the reach of dirty-f...

So, Max is once again barking his frantic--OMG! OMG! OMFG! Lookit! Lookit! Lookit!--and that can mean only one thing--Snake. Or trapped som...

Well, since I no longer have the goat herd keeping the vegetation down, the snakes have arrived in spades. This morning, I go out and Max is...

I go into the doctor today because I've had these icepick headaches for two months now. They've gone from being 3 minute crash-to-yo...

I love the golden light right before it becomes too dark. Here, like many places in the South today, it has been storming. Anyway, I looked...

Tivo Alert! Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods visits Appalachia tomorrow night at 10:00. Looks like he's sampling some of my personal f...

The dogwood trees are amazing this spring. The blooms are the size of saucers, the canopies dense as clouds--I don't think I've see...

Many times when I've writing, I use something from the natural world as a jumping off point--or as an element in my story. Because I don...

We Be Ignorant Rubes!!! (an NBC Affiliate) I'm forced to watch WBIR because NBC News with Brian Williams is on every night at 6:30 unles...

I've gotten so much done this week since I decided to stay off Facebook. Computer life is nice again now that I'm not waiting 30 sec...

And it was great! Listened to to last night and enjoyed it very much. "They Made Us Walk to Eat" is read on the Diet Soap Podcast ...