The artist Christo wrapped an island in fabric. Novelist Tim Bryant created an island. Armadillo Island. A place of beaches, boats, books, photos, essays, factoids, ….
Throwback Thurs— POUND PUP JACK, the little Terhuahua we rescued eleven years ago just days before he was to be put down, spent last weekend ….
I found this photo of my younger self sailing across a frozen lake near Rockford, Illinois, where I spent my high school years. It reminded ….
It’s cold outside. Another winter presses down on Pineapple Hill, my beach house in a cow pasture in rural South Carolina. The sky is pale ….
Last year was great for blackberries and grapes (and wine) but peaches were hit hard by a fungus that ruined a good many. Called Brown ….
This is a view of Pineapple Hill from the field we call The Bottoms. That’s a REAL cow. (Yes, surprises me too.)
This handsome classic wooden sailboat, named PANDORA, is probably the only gaff-rigged 9 meter now in existence. Designed by Johan Anker and built by the ….
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There’s so many sayings in the South that I wonder if any other place could possible have as many. Not only do they relate so ….
To me, it like a dog chasing its tail. First stereotyping blacks. Now stereotyping whites. ‘Round and ‘round it goes. Unable, it seems, to let ….
Squint to see the cow. Getting used to my new life in rural South Carolina meant deploying all types of counter-measures including, more than once, ….
Finding a critique group has not been easy from my roost in Union County. At first, I sat in during a few “Writers night Out” ….
—One part story-telling. One part global nutrition advocacy. For several weeks I’ve been racing the weather at Pineapple Hill, my “beach house in a cow ….