Little Journeys

Taking a Day Trip

Editor's note: This article has been republished. Original date of publication: February 28th, 2018.   I moved to Asheville back in 1988, long before it had become famous for its funky shops, artisan galleries, vibrant downtown, panoramic…

Fiction or Non-Fiction?

  In 1978, I left a secure job as a high school English teacher, determined to make it as a professional writer. I cashed in my meager state retirement account to tide me over until I wrote my first best-selling novel, but a year later…

Early Reflections On an Arts and Crafts “Retirement”

  Living in what may later be labeled “The Era of Early Retirements,” many of us are watching with a combination of amazement, wonder, and puzzlement -- tinged with a touch of guilt – to discover what it actually means to now be…

Rock versus Wood

  As do-it-yourself Arts and Crafts landscapers, we all have to make a choice:  rock or wood? Last summer, I watched as a neighbor of ours struggled to install several eight-foot long 4” x 4” landscape timbers on a steep bank which…

Having a Drink With Scott

Editor's note: this article has been republished. Original date of publication: June 27th, 2021.   Several years ago I published a column entitled “Having a Drink with Gus,” written after I had spent a few hours in a Manhattan bar…

Getting Excited

  Although I descended from a family of collectors, none were drawn to art pottery, as the closest they came were mass-produced Normal Rockwell and M. I. Hummel “limited edition” figurines. But my mother and grandmother simply collected…

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