Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most drab, tedious, and monotonous moments of life. We don’t want to live pedestrian lives. Yet maybe we should. Many of history’s great thinkers have been pedestrians. Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche and Virginia Woolf,…
There is a back porch in the High Country of North Carolina that calls to me. Facing north over the Watauga River and Watauga County, the mornings are different there. At almost a mile up in elevation, the summers aren't oppressive. If anything they tend to be on the cool…
We were running into Manville to get some BBQ when suddenly I had a flat. There is nothing like changing a flat tire on the hottest day of the year so far... But the BBQ was good. And Discount Tires was empty when I pulled in... So in and out…