Country Roads and The Quiet Legacies of Slavery

Yesterday, I drove through Cobham, Virginia, a town built around a railroad station and surrounded by some of the oldest and wealthiest of Virginia’s early plantations.  Names like Rives and Cabell and Jefferson flavor the landscape like so much bittersweet...

Fired Through Time; Preserved in Stone

All around this farmhouse, there are field stones – some have been circled into a sort of patio at the east side of the house and some – that I witnessed for the first time yesterday – circle the pergola and terra cotta style picnic area on the west...

I Oppose Outlines in My Own Writing

You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock I’m almost entirely opposed to outlines in my own work, especially my creative work.  Maybe I’d make an exception if I went back to academic writing, but I hope that isn’t going to happen so...