Confluence of Goose Creek and Nameless Will there be enough to go around in tomorrow’s world? How to have adequate water for all who need it on the global scale has become as urgent and compelling an environmental issue as how to avoid too much...

Morning sun finds snow in the tops of the tallest pines ☼ For those of you with ties to or interest in Floyd County or the southern mountain culture and those who have lived it long and well, watch for This Pleasant Land: a Blue Ridge History. I...

Image by Jeff the Trojan via Flickr This morning, my dog tried to kill me. I don’t know if I didn’t respond quickly enough to his early morning demands for breakfast (SOS, the same old —er—stuff he usually gets) or the fact that it was only...

Image via Wikipedia The local gas company truck backed laboriously up the gravel drive on a routine, unannounced check of our tank. More often than not, they check, and leave without adding any gas. We don’t use any more than we have to, and with...

As in “I wonder if I’d be an idiot to try to get to the Jacksonville Center this morning.” In all honesty, I don’t think even the local folk will be so desperate for arts and crafts that they’ll risk fenders and hips and trek out in the snow to...