Little Journeys

Time In a Bottle?

We took a drive down to Lake Lure this past weekend, a small reward for having spent a day mowing, weed-eating and landscaping around the farm. Lake Lure has again been in the news lately, what with the release of the remake of “Dirty Dancing.”…

From Wedding to Workshop in Seven Days

You would think that with a week which began in Palm Springs, California, at my brother-in-law’s wedding and ended with my first 400-meter race of the 2017 Senior Games track season, I would have enough stories to fill an entire website, but…

A Trip Up Sunset Mountain

My latest little journey took me up Sunset Mountain to the Grove Park Inn overlooking Asheville to meet with the hotel’s sales director. Even after thirty years, I never mind going up to the Grove Park Inn, even if for a business meeting,…

An Arts and Crafts Garden Retreat

After seven days and six nights in a very comfortable but sterile Marriott hotel room, I was anxious to return home last week, even knowing that several days of rain had threatened to transform our budding flower gardens into a wild array of…

Checking Out the YMCA

This was not an Arts and Crafts week for me, as I had other distractions, and so I don’t have any Art and Crafts stories to relate. But our local television station ran two short features relating to exercise workouts, something which has…

Making a Case For a Cross-Eyed Cat

In her kitchen my mother has a small sign that reads, “You say ‘crazy cat lady’ like there’s something wrong with that.” I know, because I gave it to her. In truth, she has just one indoor cat, plus two neighborhood cats she feeds…

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