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 ….
Tag: Pineapple Hill
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 ….
This is a view of Pineapple Hill from the field we call The Bottoms. That’s a REAL cow. (Yes, surprises me too.)
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, ….
I took a break from sailing to build Pineapple Hill, the beach house in a cow pasture. During that time it was hot and I ….
I was glad when early spring opened the doors to our second floor porch, a large, screened in space eleven feet off the ground with ….
I joke about dinosaurs, Great White Sharks, the Carolina Lizard Man, and other strange things in the Jonesville Reservoir (aka The Jonesville Town Pond—a forty-acre ….
I HAD A DREAM THAT JEFFREY EPSTEIN WAS HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER AND HE WAS MAKING ME READ THE GREAT GATSBY AND I WAS LIVING ….
I’ve had several incredibly large visions along the lines of environmental concept artist Christo. One was to create a beach house in a cow pasture. ….
The nearest Krispy Kreme—a Southern delicacy that my mom truly loved—is more than twenty miles from Pineapple Hill. I don’t get there often but when ….
I’ve been going through boxes in the crawl spaces at Pineapple Hill. Some of them haven’t been opened in decades and so are like time ….
Under Pineapple Hill, our “beach house in a cow pasture” in rural South Carolina, boats hang from rafters. Beneath them, rocking chairs are a great ….