I graduate from college NEXT MONTH! You can give me a graduation gift via PayPal. Dang, I need it. It’s taken me six years, but next month I graduate from college with my first undergraduate degree. I put myself through college while living single,...

It’s that time again! The annual blogger’s ball has gotten a Web 2.0 upgrade to include Tweeters and Facebookers… Plus it’s getting a spooky late start this year: Friday, Oct. 30 at the Pump Gallery in the Phil Mechanic Building, River Arts...

photo of WNC mountains taken yesterday by Jose Ibarra So glad the sun came out. Off to run errands and drink it in. More later. *** The Love of October W. S. Merwin A child looking at ruins grows younger but cold and wants to wake to a new...

The Night House Every day the body works in the fields of the world Mending a stone wall Or swinging a sickle through the tall grass- The grass of civics, the grass of money- And every night the body curls around itself And listens for the soft...

Saturday was the day I ran out of excuses. I had an errand to run in the vicinity, I had enough time. It wasn’t the perfect day for it, but favorable conditions never come. I was going to rejoin the gym. As a former gym rat (ex gym employee, ex...