April 16th is a big day in my dining room. I clear the table, floor, piano bench, piano, hanging plants and chairs of dozens of paper piles.
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Three big helicopters flew in low and fast over Devil’s Backbone, the 4,000-foot-high Appalachian ridge that is the eastern rim of my end of...
I had a bit part 46 years ago in my high school’s senior class musical, “Brigadoon.” Since I can’t sing, dance or act, I was cast as a dry goods...
Something’s up in television land. Have you noticed all the shows on loggers? The History Channel brings us “AXMEN” about crews in Northwest Oregon...
Every once in a while you read a memoir of folks doing something so colossally pointless that you root for them to succeed. Like a one-legged man of...
A pretty big week was had by all in Blue Grass, though nothing much happened. Most of our weeks are pretty big by this standard.
(With apologies to Clement Moore, and my 11th-grade English teacher, Miss DeFrance, who said, correctly, that I was a lousy poet.)
You can’t go too far wrong with a good Thanksgiving. For starters, everything smells good all day, even me. Then, everybody’s nice as pie for as long...
Country property has always attracted a bit more than its fair share of philosophers, utopians, missionaries, dreamers, writers and nuts.
President-elect Obama showed up unannounced in Blue Grass late Wednesday afternoon as I was pulling in with a load of split firewood.