1. When I was in third grade, my parents were unsatisfied with the public schools in rural NC, so they taught me at home. My mom was a teacher; at the time she still had an up-to-date teaching license. Nevertheless, the Chatham County authorities saw fit to arrest them on charges of child neglect. The charges were dropped on the condition they ( Read more... )

 I went and got a facebook page, finally.

So friend me, even though I don't really know what I'm doing and I only get to a computer a few times a week.

This time last week we were leaving the VA mountains for the NC mountains. My Grandfather, who lives near Asheville, turned 90 years old and we had a picnic for him next to the Pigeon River. Kyla and her third? fourth? second twice removed? cousin Taylor swam and swam so long they missed birthday cake.

Sunday we drove the length of NC ( a really ( Read more... )

Kitchen List

I don’t really wish for nothing left to do, the desk you gave me when I helped you move still crowding the kitchen and the rest of the dishes rank and slimy in the water I didn’t drain last night when I fell to bed sooner than I could pull the plug. I don’t wish for the laundry to hang itself in the late morning light with new birds ( Read more... )

Katrina was not the fault of sinners in New Orleans.

Tell John McCain this.

http://pol.moveon.org/mccain_pander/

I Love Spring.

I am very happy to be back in school, which is a relief. Because by the end of last semester I could not WAIT for it to be over, and that scared me ( Read more... )

Happy Winter Solstice everyone.

It's getting dark outside now, but I have been awake to see all of the light today.

Hope everyone is celebrating well and will continue to from now to epiphany.

Balance
I am hewing an ax handle with an ax in my hand…
                                    -Lu Chi

My sister brought a necklace back from Hawaii
and gave it to me while my daughter
danced the hula in her new grass skirt
and my brother told me he didn’t agree
with another one of my bumper stickers,
            the one that says:

Growing the economy ( Read more... )

New favorite bumpersticker ( Read more... )