• Into the Woods

    Into the Woods

    What I’m reading right now

  • Flora and Fauna Friday, III

    At the Farm If you take a road running south of Pittsburgh over a big hill…

  • WIP Wednesday

    WIP Wednesday

    Landscape as a Character? If you’re familiar at all with my writing, you probably know that…

  • Flora and Fauna Friday, II

    And fungi! We’ve had quite a bit of rain here in western Pennsylvania over the past…

  • WIP Wednesday

    WIP Wednesday

    “Lost in Translation” We tend to think of language as simply a means to convey our…

  • Autumn begins

    Autumn begins to whisperIn the maples of August –The soft tinge of chartreuseWhere once was bolder…

  • Flora and Fauna Friday, I

    When we moved to southwestern Pennsylvania from the Piedmont of North Carolina almost exactly two years…

  • Post-Consumer Nostalgia

    Fiddle music and hot peanut oilEchoes of music and laughterGone beneath luxury vinyl plankAnd white painted…

  • Why I’m No Longer Posting to Substack

    Why I’m No Longer Posting to Substack

    A brief explanation of why I will no longer be posting to Substack and have chosen…