Little Journeys

Rules of Disengagement

  We’ve all known since high school that drinking and driving don’t mix, but now we need to add antiques to that formula.   A few weeks ago, an inebriated guest at the Omni Grove Park Inn swerved off course and collided with…

Second Endings

  Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way we had planned. At least not the first time.     Last year one of my stay-at-home Covid projects was building a three-foot tall concrete block wall separating Leigh Ann’s…

Memories of Memorial Days

This article is a republication and has been edited to include archived images of the author's father and family. Original date of publication: May 27th, 2012.   There will be hundreds of columns written this week on the meaning of Memorial…

To Build a Fence

  Trust me, I never intended to build it myself.   A sudden spring flood had deposited three inches of sandy silt on our three existing pastures, effectively choking out the young grass Leigh Ann’s horses depend on during the…

Arts and Crafts Church Camp

  It has been called a cruise ship lodged atop a mountain.   Make that an Arts and Crafts cruise ship….   When the Grove Park Inn opened on July 12, 1913, guests did not come simply for one night, nor did they come with…

Looking For a Little Common Sense

  Those of us who did not grow up with computers freely admit and marvel over how computers have changed our lives. While still a classroom teacher, I wrote my first book, a study guide for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped for Monarch…

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