by ashevillewitch | Jul 13, 2013
I went up to Malaprop’s tonight to hear Alex Bledsoe talk about and read from his new Tufa novel “Wisp of a Thing.” I met Alex at Pagan Unity this year and am reading the first of the Tufa novels “The Hum and the Shiver.” I really like...
by ashevillewitch | Jul 11, 2013
I remember the old days as a blogger when I wrote nearly every day. Sometimes it was trivial silliness, sometimes I tried to be poetic, sometimes I ranted about the state of the world. At least my world. But I am no such blogger these days. I’m gardening,...
by ashevillewitch | Jul 5, 2013
Even today–so many years and lives away–the power of this document and the responsibilities it lays out should shake every American to her very core.from http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htmIN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776The unanimous...
by ashevillewitch | Jun 28, 2013
When we were children, summertime really was this delightful time-out-of-time because we were out of school. Most of us had responsibilities for chores–feeding the animals and giving them water and weeding the garden were my big ones most years–but...
by ashevillewitch | Jun 13, 2013
The Crescent Moon tonight was cool and sharp in her ascending but now she seems to be lowering into the Western ridge of mountains and she has put on her warlike face. She is poised now–a sickle, a scythe–leaning in towards Spivey Mountain with a dark...