Smokey Mountain Breakdown

After fourteen years of snack stealing, unrepentant repetitive barking, trash scrounging, undeserved entitlement and all around outrageous b...

I am turning into my mother’s best friend as I age. Which is just fine, since even as a teenager, I wanted to be just like this nutty woman ...

The summer issue of Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine is out and it's a really good one. I think this is my favorite of the Appa...

I've not been keeping up with the blog--basically, the time has come when I have to make a decision about the dial-up. So what have I be...

It's the first time in several years that I've felt well enough to plant the garden and I've gotten off to a good start. Planted...

You know the post where I showed you the pictures of the birdnest with the eggs? I checked in on them tonight and they were hatching! Looks...

Each spring they build them. Little shelters of moss, grass, twigs, but also shreds of plastic Wal-Mart shopping bags, paper towels and cell...

Shall I write to you of food again on Fridays? Maybe. While I'm not avoiding the comfort foods of the past, I am working with some major...

I've gotten a bit lazy with my writing, I think. I've been working on edits and collections, but no new material. I think it's t...

There is this ad playing ad nauseum on one of the local top 40 radio stations that's been setting my teeth on edge. Every time it star...

...a real shitstorm is brewing. I often wonder about the karma thing. It seems to make an awful lot of sense in my case. I've noticed th...

...is up on Dew on the Kudzu. You may read it HERE . I hope you enjoyed it. I need to write more short story length work. Flash is so addic...

...on Dew on the Kudzu . "The Ghosts are Dancing" is a story I wrote some time ago loosely based on the flood of 1972 that struck ...

I have a story just up on the new issue of Up the Staircase . "Tandava" was inspired by the deceptively sweet looking canine (I ...

I wake up this morning to 50 mph winds and blowing snow. It's already snowed more this year than it ever has since I came here seven ye...

I don't know anyone who drives a Toyota but I can only imagine how awful it must be to be looking at your mild-mannered Japanese import ...

I've got a new story out on DecomP 's new and improved site. It looks great and while I was expecting this story out in January, it...

Haven't seen hide nor hair of the groundhog that lives in the big woodpile in my pasture, but the turkey "herd" saw Max this m...

I've not been keeping up lately with the blog. So sorry. I'll try harder. Basically coming on today to tell you I'm most likely ...

Should we bleed orange while others are actually bleeding? I'm not the biggest football fan. It's just not something I care about. I...