1. If my blog was a seven day menu, photographs would be appetizers, short posts would be salads, long posts would be the main entries, and poetry would be dessert. 2. Sometimes I wish the word “blog” didn’t sound so much like “blob” and remind me of the 1958 movie (The Blob) staring Steve McQueen […]
I took some time off from my blogging schedule to have lunch with a friend who has a new blog so that we could talk about blogging. Listening to the radio on the drive to the appointed restaurant, I caught the The Diane Rehm Show, which was all about blogging. Her guest was Scott Gant, […]
1. Contradictions 2. Early sightings 3. Anything absurd 4. or overstated Post note: The following photos were all taken last week during a ride down Bent Mountain and into Roanoke to record THIS essay at WVTF radio station.
We’re not so different than moths and June bugs drawn to a flame in darkness. Maybe because for eons our ancestors sat in front of nighttime fires, it seems to be in our DNA to be pulled in by a bright light. Is that why our eyes go right for a TV set when one […]
The following was written from the Sunday Scribblings prompt “spicy.” What do you do on the hottest day of the year? You could go to your local health food store and stock up on hot cayenne pepper because you gave your supply to your son for his construction site first aid kit. You know that […]
I’m not much good at a construction site. I don’t have the inclination or stamina for it. So, like my grandfather’s brother, Carol Wentzell, who cooked for a lumber camp in Nova Scotia, I signed up to feed the workers helping my son Josh raise the roof over his kiln this past weekend. Mostly I […]
1. While working a long weekend helping my son Josh raise a roof over his kiln site, my husband nearly forgot the foot injury he got at a recent martial arts event. The first morning back at home, he started thinking about it again and it started to hurt. “Why is it that when things […]
The following are construction site outtakes from the kiln shed roof raising that my husband Joe (on the roof) and I took part in at my Asheville potter son Josh’s place this past weekend. 1. The powder room 2. Hood ornament 3. Bucket seats 4. Knight on shiny tractor 5. The end of civilization as […]
“Always we are eating and drinking earth’s body, making her dishes.” ~ Potter and poet, M.C. Richards. Between the bullfrogs and the snake handling church service being held just above Josh’s pottery kiln site, Saturday night in the Walnut part of Marshall, North Carolina, was pretty lively. The sound of hammers banging, electric saws singing, […]
AKA: See the T-shirt in photo number 4. “What’s the first thing I should do? Enjoy the scenery? Okay, I’ll check that off my list,” I joked to Joe just few miles out of our driveway, heading south on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We were on our way to Asheville to visit Josh for the […]
During this past fall while working on my BFA thesis exhibition, I became interested in exploring methods of using wood-fired ceramics to visually explain the strength of community. I wanted to create an installation that would communicate ideas about the universal importance of co-operative spirit in our world today, while also specifically expressing my gratitude […]
