Strength in Softness. Silence in Speech.

When we were in college, she made baskets of copper wire.  I saw her work once at what must have been a craft show in our gymnasium, and since that day – despite having known her for more than 20 years, despite having known her as professional, mother, wife...

Living More Like Wendell Berry

I’m sitting in my new office, the space that used to be the summer kitchen back when electricity was just lightning and the ownership of human beings was tragically normal. My tuckus is in the cookstove’s former location, the ceiling above me tinged by...

The Spark of the Rural South

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as blessing – Flannery O’Connor Yesterday, our basset hound pup Mosey had an allergic reaction to the lyme disease vaccine I authorized when the veterinarian with a German/Austrian/Scandinavian accent said that the...