Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Thursday, April 9, 2015

MARIANNA, FLORIDA

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On a return trip from central Florida to New Iberia, Louisiana, we stopped at Marianna, Florida, the halfway mark of a 15-hour journey. We...
Friday, August 9, 2013

THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS

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Heartwood, SW Virginia's Artisan Gateway Abingdon, Virginia Tennessee is a long, narrow state that is bordered by...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

VISTAS…

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From steps of St. Mary's Convent, Sewanee TN Every morning when I wake, I open the French doors in the living room and look out at t...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

HEAVY RAINS BRING MEMORIES OF HUNTING PLANTS…

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The plant hunter on an early expedition. This week’s “monsoon” that flooded city streets throughout Acadiana reminded me of Hurricane El...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

LEAVING OUR FAMILY AT ST. MARY’S

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One of the major experiences I’ll miss when I return to Louisiana for the winter is my life as an Associate with the Anglican Sisters of ...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

MOONEY’S

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Mooney's Market & Emporium For five years, I passed a dingy stucco building on the highway between Monteagle and Sewanee, Tenn...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

MAKING THE LOOP TO LEIPER’S FORK

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Joe Natural's for lunch at Leiper's Fork Last week, a friend in Louisiana wrote to me about a small town near Franklin, Tenn...
Friday, May 4, 2012

POSTCARDS FROM DIDDY WAH DIDDY: my latest book

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It’s Spring at Sewanee, a felicitous time to publish another book of poetry, and I’m right on schedule with it because I anticipated bri...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

MAKING THE MOST OF BLANK SPACES…

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Many people who’re classified as “hobbyists” are authentic artists and artisans who care more about their art or craft than they do abou...
Monday, April 2, 2012

CHAPTER II OF LIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN, WRITING ABOUT THE DESERT

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Burnet, TX, roadside park This is the second blog about a childhood memory of traveling to California, “to gypsy forever” in my father’s ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

COWAN, TENNESSEE #2

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After visiting the Smithsonian Exhibit, “The Way We Worked,” at Cowan, Tennessee Sunday afternoon, we walked up the main street of town, sto...
Monday, March 19, 2012

“NOTHING WILL WORK UNLESS YOU DO”...Maya Angelou

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Jarod's grandmother remembers Sunday afternoons on The Mountain here at Sewanee are desultory, particularly during the Spring break o...
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