Returning to Thoughts in Blog Form…Maybe

I spend entirely too much time spewing my thoughts all over social media and I may have lost the knack of blogging. I used to do it every day when I first started. But there’s something about my relationship to my website that needs to be amended. So I’m...

Love in the Time of Towers

I’m writing a book (yes, another one, this time for Red Wheel/Weiser) so the shelter-in-place order from the governor gave me at-home time to write. And to garden. And to cook. And to focus on the maddening news about the global pandemic that has swept over us....

Can I Do This From My Phone?

There is a glitch on my computer’s interface with WordPress that will be fixed at some future point. So I am attempting this from my phone. Erm…testing. Testing.

An Editing Adventure

I’m doing another book on Appalachian folkways, this one for Llewellyn. I turned it in to my editor on 12/1 and the team sent me notes last week. I was still working on the final plans for my niece’s memorial so I jumped into the editing this week. I...

Morning in Appalachia

The weather has returned to its standard operating procedure, for which I am very grateful. I’ll be editing my Folkways book today and all weekend. I’d like to get it back to my editor asap. I’ve gotten a good start on the permaculture/animism book,...