Frugal Hedonism
I love my crazy life. Love that I no longer sit in a cube farm wasting hours on silly tasks. Love that our selective…
book club
Bread bitch
A recent email: Folks – please know, be apprised-cognizant, advised and fully aware — that the birthday bread brought to us by y’all is beyond…
Walk this way
Cool morning, and I’m out chopping wood in the empty lot behind the house. I figured if I was going to destroy my spine…
Trespassing
“To get to the heart of America,” writes Ken Ilgunas, “we cannot simply walk its forests and fields; rather we must cut through its…
‘Dead’ write
Today we present a special audio edition of The Dew Abides, where we interview author J. Aaron Sanders, a novelist and associate professor of…
Shelf-ish
The unused space inside our four fireplaces has driven us to a fiery rage for 12 years. Only, with no actual place to put that fire….
Still the one
In one of the opening scenes of a documentary on moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, the scrawny old fella in overalls is scoping out creeks to…
Happy (wild) turkey day
My buddy Jeff talks about how he used to host an “orphans” Thanksgiving dinner for all his coworkers who couldn’t make it to their…
Trip to ‘Bountiful’
My standard for judging the worth of a cookbook has been all about the kohlrabi. Which is to say, I’m less swayed by the…