Tag: Carolina Lizard Men

Marketing: Any Danged Fool Can Do It

The Jonesville Reservoir is a 35-acre lake just through the woods behind Pineapple Hill. For a couple of years on Facebook I claimed to keep ….

Reservoir Road

This is the public access road to the world famous Reservoir that’s behind Pineapple Hill just a short way through the woods. It’s loaded with ….

Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.