The Holidays

The holidays are a magical production... beginning with extreme efforts to scare myself at Hallowe…

October Joy

Luke and Justine got engaged! Later that day, as Caleb, Sean, Henry and I are celebrating the goo…

Indian Summer

I woke this morning to seven hawks                circling outside my window on the…

Harrisonburg's International Festival

When we moved to rural Virginia thirteen years ago, my first social event was a bonfire.  There so…

Country Life & Paper Mills

Few smells are more nauseous than paper mills.  A cold air inversion trapping the pollution in can…

Richmond, Virginia

Almost 150 years after the fall of the Capitol of the Confederacy, Richmond still has an electric …